{"id":630,"date":"2018-01-27T11:12:16","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T10:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kulturundgeschlecht.blogs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Marzinkowski_Marginal-Marginalities.pdf"},"modified":"2018-01-27T11:15:37","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T10:15:37","slug":"marzinkowski_marginal-marginalities","status":"inherit","type":"attachment","link":"https:\/\/kulturundgeschlecht.blogs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de\/?attachment_id=630","title":{"rendered":"Sandra Marzinkowski: Marginal Marginalities Escaping the Double Bind: Double Complicity and Non-Monosexual Non-Complicity"},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"class_list":["post-630","attachment","type-attachment","status-inherit","hentry"],"description":{"rendered":"

Sandra Marzinkowski: Marginal Marginalities Escaping the Double Bind: Double Complicity and Non-Monosexual Non-Complicity<\/a><\/p>\n

The present paper investigates the (non-)representation of non-monosexualities, an umbrella term covering bisexualities, pansexualities, sexual curiosities, fluidities, and other forms of non-monosexual queerness, in contemporary British and US-American culture. It will be argued that both the heteronormative mainstream and LGBT+ culture are complicit in the spatio-discursive exclusion of non-monosexualities by denying the latter access to a valid identity category. Additionally, this paper seeks to illustrate that non-mononormative sexual identities show themselves to be anti-complicit in the maintenance of their epistemic erasure. This non-complicity manifests itself culturally and linguistically. More and more young adults define themselves as neither completely heterosexual nor completely homosexual, thereby positioning themselves on a spectrum rather than within rigid categories. Linguistically, there has been a recent surge of new terms to describe one\u2019s sexuality that defy both the gender binary and the inalterability of one\u2019s sexual orientation, such as pansexuality<\/em> and heteroflexibility\/homoflexibility<\/em>. By questioning the heterosexual\/homosexual<\/em> binary a new binary opposition is created: bisexualities, pansexualities, pluralities, fluidities, and polarities are juxtaposed with mono-categories. The analysis is rounded off with the suggestion to incorporate hitherto largely undertheorised identity categories such as non-monosexualities into intersectional analyses and the exploration of normalizing processes.<\/p>\n

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