J Class assignment

Ivan Chang

One thing that has inhibited radical potential of queer activism is not enough people practice the ideas that are in the queer activism and that these ideas aren’t effectively challenging the norms that the government has set in society. By not being able to do this these queer activist aren’t able to go against the government (heterosexual) politics. Also the queer activist has many other groups such as lesbian, gay, race (African American), gender (male/female/transgender), etc… that deal with oppression by the government and it is possible that they have more than one idea to fight for against the government (essentially since there is so much ideas floating around in a group of people that has oppression they each person might want something like rights that the other person might not want, but some of the ideas are combined together to make it form a specific type of queer politic). Also since their is so much groups in one activist with different race/gender/perspective it will be harder to understand how for example the other group maybe feeling. For example usually male is dominant in society so females tend to be more oppressed than males. However African American have less rights and are usually more oppressed than white American, so how would those white Americans understand the African American? Another thing that is inhibiting the radical potential of queer activism is how society looks at these people who are part of the queer activist. Usually when you want to be successful in something you need a group of supporters which the queer activist has, but if society and people disagree with that then it will be harder to get your point across unless you continue fighting for it because those people that disagree tries to ignore the people of the oppressed. Also with the government who has power and they can pass laws to make oppression worser.