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7 - Voice, Responsibility, and Liberation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2021

Damien W. Riggs
Affiliation:
Flinders University of South Australia
Shoshana Rosenberg
Affiliation:
Curtin University, Perth
Heather Fraser
Affiliation:
Queensland University of Technology
Nik Taylor
Affiliation:
University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
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The final chapter of the book returns to the earlier themes of enmeshment and irreducibility, drawing on the issues explored throughout the book to consider what an animal-centric account of LGBQTNB politics might look like. We suggest that such an account must start by acknowledging species privilege if we are to make any progress in decentering human centrism. What, then, does this mean for gender and sexuality, given these are resolutely human categories of difference? This chapter argues that all bodies are marked by differences that are hierarchised: This applies between humans, between humans and animals, and between humans and the world around us. How we think about the ways in which bodies are marked thus provides us with a means to think about responsibility and accountability for practices of marking. In other words, one person’s practice of marking as a form of liberation (i.e., with regard to gender and sexuality) might be another person’s form of violence.

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Queer Entanglements
Intersections of Gender, Sexuality, and Animal Companionship
, pp. 176 - 202
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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