The Politics of Queer: Interventions in U.S.-American Culture, Media, and Law
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Abstract
This introduction aims to untangle the antagonistic political, media, and legal forces that shape discourses about queerness and queer individuals in U.S.-American culture.While media productions are becoming increasingly diverse in the representations they offer and the stories they tell, legislatures are growing ever more discriminatory.As discursive fronts between calls for "wokeness" and accusations of "grooming" harden, action has reached an impasse: There is a need for diverse representations of queerness in media but also an inherent danger to it.To approach this paradox, we offer a three-part typology, addressing queerness in media and law, queering media and law, and a queer media and law.Specifically, we (1) highlight how the surge of queer representations is essential for including it in the U.S.-American national narrative, but also an incentive for conservative politicians to legislate against queer individuals; (2) argue for a move away from focusing on the storytelling of queer identities toward a queer storytelling of identities to adapt and refine narrative conventions; and (3) call for a breaking down of and breaking free from binaries of straight and queer, norm and non-norm, convention and deviation in media, law, and scholarship.In this, we, in dialogue with the contributions to this special issue, develop a queer literacy that understands politics, media, and law to be co-dependent and co-constructed.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.014 |
| 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".