What can a dead bird do? Reflections on queer theory, affect and negativity

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https://doi.org/10.9771/peri.v2i16.37058

Abstract

Based on the recent controversy involving the expulsion of a trans and Romani participant from the TV show
MasterChef Spain, after she served an uncooked and unplucked dead bird to the judges, this paper examines the relations
between gender, sexuality, race, affects, and inclusion politics. To analyze both the media coverage of the episode and the
heated public reaction, we mobilize the queer theories proposed by Sara Ahmed, José Esteban Muñoz, Leo Bersani, Jack
Halberstam, Lee Edelman, and Judith Butler. In short, even within queer theory we observe important disputes over the
political meanings of subversion, transgression, and assimilation. Such impossibility of reaching an agreement reflects the
aporetic character of the very concept of politics that underlies its ethical ground.

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Author Biographies

João Gabriel Maracci, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Doutorando em Psicologia (área de concentração: Psicologia Social) pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, bolsista CAPES.

Daniel Boianovsky Kveller, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.

Doutorando em Psicologia Social e Institucional pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, bolsista CAPES.

Published

2021-09-28

How to Cite

Maracci, J. G., & Kveller, D. B. (2021). What can a dead bird do? Reflections on queer theory, affect and negativity. Revista Periódicus, 2(16), 126–142. https://doi.org/10.9771/peri.v2i16.37058