cyberidentities (sexual and gender)

  Your project should reference a minimum of one (1) course readings in an application of one or more theoretical concepts we have explored this semester to a text, issue, or cultural production of your choice. You should include a minimum of two (2) outside sources on the topic, which can be original data collection or other sources you have found in your own research. Therefore, the paper will have a total of three (3) sources. Proper research methods using the FIU library website will be discussed in class. Examples of possible concepts to consider/integrate: the sex/gender binary birth of the “homosexual” discursive constructions of sexuality regulation, power, and knowledge diagnosis, confession, and “truth” medical science and sexuality – the construction of “normal” historical context and its role in definition passing and trans narratives intersectionality – race/class/gender/sexuality recognition/visibility of sexual and gender identities (bisexuality & the closet) queer politics and the policing of “deviant” bodies and sexualities pedophilia, psychosexual development, and polymorphous perversity stereotypes and cultural representation performativity, drag, and gender identity Stonewall and gay liberation queer and trans challenges to the legal system sodomy and marriage laws lesbian feminism, separatism, and trans identities materiality of the body cyberidentities (sexual and gender)