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Today most LGBTQ rights supporters take for granted the virtue of being out loud and proud Most also assume that it would be terrible to be LGBTQ in a rural place By considering moments in which queerness and rurality come into contact Visibility Interrupted argues that both positions are wrong In the first monograph on LGBTQ women in the rural Midwest Carly Thomsen deconstructs the image of the rural as a flat homogenous and anachronistic place where LGBTQ people necessarily suffer And she suggests that visibility is not liberation and will not lead to liberation
Far from being an unambiguous good argues Thomsen visibility politics can in fact preclude collective action They also advance metronormativity postraciality and capitalism To make these interventions Thomsen develops the theory of unbecoming interrogating the relationship between that which we celebrate and that which we find disdainfulthe past the rural politicsis crucial for developing alternative subjectivities and politics Unbecoming precedes becoming Drawing from critical race studies disability studies and queer Marxism in addition to feminist and queer studies the insights of this book will be useful to scholars theorizing issues far beyond sexuality and place and to social justice activists who want to move beyond visibility
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