Today Kori and Taylor discuss sex and a problem that we’re calling queer patriarchal purity culture (or QPPC for short) and how it affects fandom culture, particularly femslash.
Further Reading:
- Eli, Kori. “The Evolution of Queerbaiting.” The Fandomentals (2018)
- Kori, Taylor. “Cultural Expectations On Coming Out.” The Fandomentals (2020)
- Rebecca, Taylor. “Ladies First Discusses The Owl House.” The Fandomentals (2020)
- Taylor. “The Owl House Validates Its Queer Audience With Timeless Tropes.” The Fandomentals (2020)
- Taylor. “Warrior Nun Struggles As a Trauma Narrative (Part 1).” The Fandomentals (2021)
Resources Related to Sex & Being Queer:
- Asher. “What Queerness Means To Me.” Trananarchism (2011)
- Ozymandias. “My Feminism Will Be Pro-Sex-Work Or It Will Be Bullshit.” Thing of Things — WordPress (2016)
- QueerByChoice.com by Gayle Madwin
Sources:
- Benedict, Raquel S. “Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny.” Blood Knife (2021)
- Benedict, Raquel S. “It’s bewildering to me seeing geeks demand more queer representation but revolt in horror against sexuality in media. They want queerness as a cultural performance, not as lived experience; bisexuality as purple lighting & sitting funny, not as love or desire.” @benedict_rs — Twitter (2021)
- Bourdillon, Roxy. “Ann Bannon: “I know my books saved lives”.” DIVA (2019)
- Califia, Patrick. “Introduction: Snips and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails.” Rough Stuff: Tales of Gay Men, Sex, and Power, Alyson Books; edited by Simon Sheppard and M. Christian (2000) (p. xix)
- Califia, Patrick. “Public Sex.” Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex, 2nd ed., Cleis Press (1982, 2000)
- Christina, Greta. “Sex and the Off-Label Use of Our Bodies.” Greta Christina’s blog (2010)
- Cope, Sarah. “Ann Bannon: Queen of Lesbian Pulp.” DIVA (2013)
- Davis, Arianna. “How Hayley Kiyoko Became Pop Music’s “Lesbian Jesus”.” Refinery29 (2018)
- Eisner, Shiri. “Bi villains represent the ways cishet society is threatened by bisexuality.” @shirieisner — Twitter (2021)
- Fury. “Extracting queerness from a narrative of suffering.” Archer (2017)
- Glickman, Charlie. “If You Don’t Respect Sluts, You Don’t Respect Women.” Glickman’s website (2012)
- Gutterman, Lauren. “Die Bi(e)! Reading Bisexual Women’s History.” Notches (2017)
- Hulan, Haley. “Bury Your Gays: History, Usage, and Context.” McNair Scholars Journal, vol. 21 #1 (2017)
- Irby, Samantha. “a kind of careless bisexuality.” Wow, No Thank You: Essays, Vintage Books (2020) (pp. 227-228)
- Jeremiah, Thaddeus. “The Code.” The Fandomentals (2018)
- Koedt, Anne. “The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm.” (1970)
- Lisa. “Why an L Word Reboot is the Last Thing We Need Right Now.” The Fandomentals (2017)
- Mandelo, Lee. “Seeing the absolute *loathing* for desire and pleasure that is a definitional part of conservatism creep & creep into queer spaces under the guise of social justice is… deeply unsettling. Purity cultures are bad, full stop.” @leemandelo — Twitter (2021)
- Meadows, Foz. “Why YA Sex Scenes Matter.” Foz Meadows — WordPress (2012)
- Mercury, Anna. “Bondage and Libeartion.” Medium (2019)
- MondoMolly. “Spring Fire By Vin Packer.” Lost Classics of Teen Lit: 1939-1989 (2013)
- O’Connor, Roison. “Taylor Swift defends Hayley Kiyoko after fans ‘misinterpret’ comments about her music.” Independent (2018)
- O’Neal, Kathleen Nicole. “Ageism is an LGBT Issue.” The Bilerico Project (2011)
- The Onion. “Gay-Pride Parade Sets Mainstream Acceptance Of Gays Back 50 Years.” The Onion (2001)
- Pendulum, Melina. “Purity Culture & Fandom … Issa Mess.” Melina Pendulum — YouTube (2021)
- Ritchie, Ronnie. “How Saying ‘We’re Just Like You’ Works Against the Queer Community.” Everyday Feminism (2015)
- Rupp, Leila J. “Hooking up as Women’s History.” NYU Press blog (2013)
- Sarkar, Ash. “One of the worst features of contemporary id pol is the persistent sense that all people want is their pain recognised, acknowledged, and represented in mainstream culture.” @AyoCaesar — Twitter (2021)
- Sparrow, Joyce. “Love Is All Around | Genre Spotlight: Romance.” Library Journal (2017)
- Stern, Scott W. “Sex Workers Are an Important Part of the Stonewall Story, But Their Role Has Been Forgotten.” Time (2019)
- Stryker, Kitty. “Why Police Aren’t Welcome at Pride.” Teen Vogue (2018)
- Stryker, Susan. Queer Pulp: Perverted Passions from the Golden Age of the Paperback, Chronicle Books (2001) (pp. 27-47)
- Sullivan, Andrew. “Here Comes the Groom.” New Republic (1989)
- Sycamore, Matilda Bernstein. “Introduction.” That’s Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation, 2nd ed., Soft Skull Press; edited by Matilda Bernstein Sycamore (2004) (p. 4)
- Taormino, Tristan et al. “Introduction.” The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure, The Feminist Press (2012) (pp. 14-15)
- Thom, Kai Cheng. “Why are queer people so mean to each other?.” Xtra (2019)
- Trainor, Jennifer. “Lesbian Pulp Fiction.”
- Weise, Elizabeth Reba. “Introduction.” Closer to Home: Bisexuality and Feminism, The Seal Press (1992) (p. x)
- Wynn, Natalie. “Degeneracy.” ContraPoints — Youtube (2017)
Credits:
- Created/Written/Hosted by Kori and Taylor
- Sound Design/Music/Production by Kori
- Research by Taylor
- Graphic Design by Kori
- Produced by The Fandomentals Network
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