Crafting a Heteronormative Haven: Representations of Sexuality on the Canadian Margin
Bibliographic record
Abstract
There is a shortage of scholarship that addresses how sexuality functions in representations of Atlantic Canada. Using contemporary literary, historical, and cultural scholarship alongside theories of metronormativity and rural space, this article offers an exploration of the intertwined histories of heterosexuality and commodified Atlantic Canadian identity. Examining the development of the tourist industry in the region, alongside the growing popularity of cultural products that uphold narratives of regional simplicity, this article thinks through how this homogenized narrative negates the reality of queer and non-conforming desire, experiences, and activism throughout the region’s history and present. Reference to Ashley MacIsaac and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Anne with an E are used to make this point. Through a focus on the “myths of Maritimeness” at work in a cultural infrastructure that positions Atlantic Canada as a space of rural simplicity, questions are raised not only about how a normative positioning of the margin impacts conceptualizations of life within the region but also about how this representation upholds a particular understanding of life in the Canadian centre.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".