Heterobinary-Panopticism

How Queerness Reveals the Disciplining of Identity

Abstract

Queerness is a present vision of a liberative future. By using a critical-genealogical approach informed by grassroots LGBTQ+ perspectives to explore how disciplinary power operates in and through contemporary queer materiality as a regulatory process of identity formation, different underlying power dynamics across society can be revealed along with ways normative constructions of subjectivity reinforce and reproduce dominant ideologies and structures such as Christian sexual ethics, the colonial gaze, capitalism, and 'safe' LGBTQ+ bodies. Queerness then provides a praxis-oriented framework to subvert these operations of power, contributing to justice throughout individual, social, and religious arenas.