Gender Nihilism and Embracing Nihilism Quiz

Expanding gender categories.

No, it is a discursive, social, and linguistic construct.

A rejection of essentialism and an understanding that the self is a product of power and discourses.

<p>Gender nihilism seeks to abolish gender, while liberal feminism clings to it for legitimacy.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They create new channels through which power can operate and ensnare individuals in even more powerful norms.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To embrace the unknown and reject any sort of knowable or intelligible future in order to escape the process of normalization.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It can destroy genuine resistance.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By rejecting traditional power structures and embracing the unknown.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The debt the author owes to Frederick Douglass is helping them answer the question of what would motivate someone who didn't face the same hatred and abuse to join them as an ally.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Frederick Douglass posed questions about slavery, such as 'Why am I a slave?' and 'How did the relations commence?' that resonated with the author.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Frederick Douglass defended the right of women to vote and declared that women's suffrage was a right.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The author believes we should aspire to be the best fighters against each other's oppression, and in doing so, build links of solidarity and trust that will forge an invincible movement against all forms of injustice and inequality.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Defending the right to be trans is tied to the rights of non-trans individuals because each individual has a stake in trans liberation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The basis for the coalitions between lesbian, gay, bi, and trans people is the relationship between body, desire, and gender expression.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The biggest societal misunderstanding about the trans population is the assumption that all transgender individuals are the same and that their experiences and needs are identical.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Gender nihilism is a rejection of gender as a social construct and seeks to abolish it completely.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Antihumanism is a rejection of essentialism and an understanding that the self is a product of power and discourses. It relates to gender by rejecting the idea that gender is innate and instead recognizes it as a social construct.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The text argues against expanding gender categories because it is seen as naive and cannot alleviate the harm caused by the gender apparatus.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The text rejects the demand for a clearly stated alternative or program of actions to be taken because it sees manifestos and platforms as outdated and ineffective.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Radical negativity is necessary to embrace the unknown and reject any sort of knowable or intelligible future in order to escape the process of normalization that codes individuals as deviant. It is necessary in the context of gender nihilism to break free from the constraints of normative thinking and societal expectations.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The text argues that non-binary, trans, and queer identities cannot create a subversion of gender because they still reference the normative status of the binary and rely on the logic of identity, which is a product of modern and contemporary discourses of power.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The violence of gender refers to the harm caused by the gender apparatus, such as the murder of trans women, coercive surgeries on intersex infants, and the abandonment of queer youth.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The danger of normalization is that it naturalizes and subsumes resistance. Nihilism offers a solution by rejecting all things, including oneself, and embracing the unknown and the unintelligible, which allows for the rejection of traditional power structures and a reimagining of societal norms.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It is a way for transgender children to express their identity</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Risk of depression, self-harm, and harmful effects</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They are repurposing the question of gender aesthetics within its enclaves of privilege and flamboyance</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It can be harmful to trans people</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They help young trans people to make their own Vanity Fair covers</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It challenges the traditional cis gaze in fashion</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It is the task of trans people themselves</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Taking back power and autonomy</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It is a way for them to articulate their identity</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Depression and self-harm</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They are natural bedfellows</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It reinforces traditional gendered aesthetics</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It challenges the cis gaze</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It is the responsibility of trans people</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They are often targets of violence</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They express a duality with violence never far behind</p> Signup and view all the answers