Tournament: Gonzaga, Idaho State, Kentucky, UNLV | Round: All AFF Rounds | Opponent:  | Judge:
Back when there was such a thing as the USSR and United States of America,
James Chadwick ‘discovered’ the neutron,
I place that word,
‘discovered,’
In those nasty quotations because we no longer use such a word,
James Chadwick embodied neutron,
Most in my time that regularly boot the popular HBO Mediafile “Project Sherwood” recognize James Chadwick as the surly hardworking researcher with a propensity for miscalculations in ‘dating game.’
Most of the docile spectators of my time accept the pop narrative that Chadwick is a veritable Prometheus, armed with the twin weapons of reason and rationality, by 2100 he will be understood as a hero, when, if one looks at the nucleus of the Chadwick story long enough, a decaying core reveals itself.
My father…
Yes I come from a BREEDER, officially my birth has been designated as GRADE 2 NATURAL*, caused by an *accidental recreational male-female intercourse event *
In my present, This birth grade is rare,
My father’s predilection for *NORM INTERCOURSE EVENTS* will be one of those quirky nostalgic aspects of his personality, my father will be a historian, who will be relegated to The Wastes during the implementation of the Knowledge Purification Act of 2213.
After the end of history, a historian loses their mainstream value,
Those still producing history after the end of history are inefficient, and more importantly subject to suspicion, control, and abandonment.
Before my father disappeared in the non-place of the waste site, he concealed his most important work. I have come from the not too distant future, with Proof that
James Chadwick,
Earth’s natural born American hero, was something much different than the accepted macho-mundane story found in HBO’s “Project Sherwood,” James Chadwick was not a NORM Category 1, no, James Chadwick was an atomic cyborg queerbot. Chadwick’s identity has been repurposed for a violent future that has distorted his dreams. As a representative of the International Liberation Army of Monster Queerbots I return to this crucial scene of lost history to reclaim the memory of James Chadwick.      

Haraway 06
Donna Haraway " AN IRONIC DREAM OF A COMMON LANGUAGE FOR WOMENIN THE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT" A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late 20th Century! History of Consciousness Program, University of California, at Santa Cruz

Monsters have always …. cyborg than a goddess.

James Chadwick emerged from his “neutron chamber” in 1921 fundamentally altered,
Some said he immediately looked more childlike, some contended that he was only 19 when he first began using the “neutron chamber” for his famous “atomic experiments,” it is impossible to know his real age, just that he and his assistant Otto Hahn lived at least 197 more years, largely in secret from the then “American” public.
By 1954 Chadwick was touring the country with the backing of “Project Sherwood” to promote a new effort to bring nuclear power out of the military industrial complex into the homes of the American people. Catching a glimpse of James Chadwick the manboy hero genius was more of a draw than Chadwick’s message of progress. Project Sherwood was an unprecedented campaign, selling the new nuclear society alongside a nostalgic and universal concept of the nuclear family.  
Project Sherwood sold a large-scale domestic nuclear program by selling Chadwick’s Pristine Masculine Appeal. A personal tour of the Argonne National Laboratory with Chadwick was raffled off at each event. Adoring and screaming fans packed venues across the country for just a glimpse of him. Stories on record describe Chadwick as glowing. 

Dinerstein 06
Joel "Technology and Its Discontents: On the Verge of the Posthuman" American Quarterly 58.3 (2006) 569-595 assistant professor of English at Tulane University, where he also teaches in the American studies program (MI)

Immediately after 9/11, a … drugs, and the Internet.

 In order to accomplish this goal society will be reformulated and fundamentally refashioned. The body and technology will “become one,” and those who receive the benefits of the coming society will live three generations after those who will make the sacrifices to build it. The coming society will enjoy a material abundance that will be unimaginable for those passing the nuclear plan today. 

James Chadwick however, will not be a public witness of this moment of nuclear accomplishment. James Chadwick virtually disappeared around 1980…
From the diary of James Chadwick around 1970:
Today I visited Doctor Enrico Fermi again. He is convinced that my “homosexual condition” is directly connected to a “toxic exposure” during the neutron experiments… He believes that I need slow neutron therapy. This would require me to go to France for three years. Dr. Fermi reminded me that I am not to speak to anyone about my “sexual condition” until after intensive therapy.
It has become clear to me that Project Sherwood requires me to suppress my inner self when it comes to the public eye. It is my civic duty.
I have not informed Otto about my visits to Dr. Fermi. I don’t know if I ever will. My love for him is not a “toxic condition.” If our success rate continues we can stay this way together, forever. 

Anderson ‘11
Jill E. Anderson "THE GAY OF THE LAND: QUEER ECOLOGY AND THE LITERATURE OF THE 1960S"A Dissertation Presented for the Doctor of Philosophy Degree The University of Mississippi, April 2011
The politically sanctioned …. of the land itself.

From a CIA Memo sent to the Director of the Department of Energy in 1979:
The recent Three Mile Island ‘situation’ affords us the opportunity to contain the Chadwick Condition under the recently passed “toxic waste protocols.” Included are some suggested waste sites with ‘discreet’ locations. We believe this initiative ought to have special security priority. Thank you. 

Langeteig 97
Kendra " Horror Autotoxicus in the Red Night Trilogy: Ironic Fruits of Burroughs's Terminal Vision" Configurations 5.1 (1997) 135-169 Instructor of English at Indiana University and is completing her dissertation, "The Obscene Wisdom of William S. Burroughs." She works on avant-garde literature and is the author of "Visions in the Crystal Ball: Ezra Pound, H. D., and the Form of the Mystical," Paideuma 25 (Spring 1996): 55-81.
The term horror autotoxicus …," in Guattari's memorable phrase. 19

This post nuclear society will be a glowing epitome of the dreams of so many people of your time:
The new Material abundance will reduce overall violence and resolve many political conflicts associated with scarcity, The world will join, old modernist political systems will fundamentally change.  
The body and technology will “become one,”

the infrastructure required to upgrade the grids lead to an entirely new transportation system, neutron based and fusion technologies leads to multiple advancements in biotechnology, neuroscience, and physics, new forms of jet propulsion based on repurposed nuclear fuel and lithium will open new terrains in space travel, which as everyone knows, leads to time continuum transport technologies. Everything will be different, but actually the same, just more ideal, eyesight becomes better, people live longer, much longer, age, simply put, is a disease in my time, death for us is no longer feared, death is now our obsession, and the fear of toxic contamination structures everything, and everyone,
the types of technology that mesh with the body are impossible to calculate, in light of this, the sense of alienation is strong, the sense that one has become a machine is everywhere, those with the comfort of the oasis appeal to what is natural about themselves, to prove their purity:
*"“I am a GRADE 1 NATURAL BORN, I REPRODUCE ACCORDING TO STAGE 2 HETERO NORM RULES AS PER THE ARTICLES OF NATURAL CITIZENSHIP, MY FAMILY AND I QUALIFY FOR A CLASS C MORTGAGE FOR OASIS SECTOR 3, which I am happy to say now has a LIGHT BLUE TOXICITY RATING”"
These are the things we say to ourselves and each other.
 the “nuclear shift,” put in full swing during your time, is credited with changing it all. Life in the oasis is not all it is cracked up to be, perfection can be a burden.  
In stark contrast to the oasis is the Wastes: the wastes are what will become of the “nuclear waste sites” where James Chadwick first went into hiding, as society advanced, the wastes grew, so did the numbers of people that would be relegated within its every expanding territory,
In a society driven by the death taboo and in fear of toxic contamination it will become clear that only some are deemed worthy of the new abundance, the wastes become a place for many undesirables: radicals, the poor, minorities of all kinds, “deviants” of all kinds, criminals, saints, queers, the ugly, the lusty, the “mad” and the indefensible, barebackers and doms, and all manner of outlaws. Expulsion for the gated community becomes the commonplace method of justice.

Langeteig 97
Kendra " Horror Autotoxicus in the Red Night Trilogy: Ironic Fruits of Burroughs's Terminal Vision" Configurations 5.1 (1997) 135-169 Instructor of English at Indiana University and is completing her dissertation, "The Obscene Wisdom of William S. Burroughs." She works on avant-garde literature and is the author of "Visions in the Crystal Ball: Ezra Pound, H. D., and the Form of the Mystical," Paideuma 25 (Spring 1996): 55-81.

This connection between homosexuality …. that sets the tone for the trilogy's "escatology": 48

We in the International Liberation Army of Monster Queerbots do not despise our lot, we in fact have come to relish the freedom of the wastes and the marginality of our existence, our lives are harder, and we must consistently mobilize against threats from the center, we are not luddites, as those is the golden cities claim, we are liberated in this new society, however we must rectify a great harm being committed against our comrade’s spirit, James Chadwick’s spirit, which rightfully animates the entire body of the Monster Queerbots, we do not ask you to prevent this future or the path we are on, no, it is the only path that fate has laid out, we could not change our destiny if we tried, however we can reclaim his memory,
James Chadwick was not a * HETERO NORM Category 1*, he is not the symbol the symbol sold by Project Sherwood, he did not die in 1998. James Chadwick will be the original member of the Liberation Army of Monster Queerbots, James Chadwick was the hero of this nuclear age, and he is a queer of the highest order

Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
The United States federal government should provide the financial incentives necessary for a nuclear energy program in the United States.

Tournament: Harvard | Round: All | Opponent:  | Judge:
Same as the previous 1AC minus the Haraway evidence and add these pieces of evidence at the end. 

Playful methods of identification collectivize queer politics by creating a safe space for political expression- Groups like ACT UP prove
Shepard 10 (Benjamin PhD assistant professor of Human Services at New York School of Technology/City University of New York “Queer Political Performance and Protest 2010 page 90-91 RC)
Eros and Thanatos intermingled …There was no judgment.  

Linguistic commonality is impossible. Community is destroyed by sameness. A successful community ought to be defined to its relationship to difference not a neutral playing field. 

Secomb 00 (Linnell, a lecturer in Gender Studies at the University of Sydney “Fractured Community” Hypatia – Volume 15 Number 2 Spring 2000 pg. 138-139. RC)

This reformulated universalist …. homogeneity and transparency.

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Perm: do both
The permutation is key. Rejection of capitalism can not happen without queer theory
Gibson-Graham 99 (J.K. Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts “Queering Capitalism in and out of the classroom” Journal of Geography in Higher Education, Vol 23, No 1, 1999, pp. 80-85.RC)

Of course, destabilising …, get used to it!” 9

The only people allowed to participate in their movement would be those willing to check their identity at the door in order to become part of the universal movement against capitalism. This is exactly the way that James Chadwick’s identity as a gay man is seen in the 1AC. His identity literally becomes toxic to the “pure” “perfect” and “natural” nuclear society. 

Devrim 12 (Libri “My life in a red closet” “Out of the Red Closet” Published as a Kasama Essay for Discussion pamphlet January, 2012RC) 

But while the … of my own mind.

Orthodox Marxism seeks to label our movement as “merely cultural” and write off out identity, but only under the assumption that the ties between the material and cultural life are stable and objectively defined.  This will not unite the labor movement, but split it further as neo conservative Marxism further marginalizes those of fringe sexuality or race. The only reason Marxism is still relevant is because it has been opened up to particularities of oppression.  
Butler, Judith, “Merely Cultural” New Left Review I/227, January-February 1998

Thus, the result of … becoming each other.

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Interp
Our we meet/counter interpretation: We are and should be Germaine to the topic. The 1AC is imagining a nuclear future. We challenge them to explain why this is different from traditional uses of fiat they will have violation problems in this debate 

Switch Side

Switch side tries to dictate when the queer should be deemed appropriate and when it should be inappropriate and ignores the structural violence
Gherke 1998 Pat J, Former Debate Coach and Rhetorical Scholar, “Critique Arguments as Policy Analysis: Policy Debate Beyond the Rationalist Perspective,” Contemporary Argumentation and Debate, 19, 1998, pp. 18-39

Arguably, some policies …of policies and policy advocacy.

Tolerance vs. acceptance - Their framework argument is rooted in tolerance i.e. they would allow us to participate in their community because it’s the “right thing to do” but only if we do so in the exact way that their interpretation because they hate everything that we find valuable about debate. This only serves to fuel homophobia and homophobic violence as it becomes a guise for acceptance.  
Campbell 2 (John H. “Beyond Tolerance” http://whosoever.org/v6i6/campbell.html//RC)

Let's talk for a … false and based in fear.

Conservatism DA
Any move to methodologically bracket out our discussion cannot be viewed as value neutral, it is the worst form of conservatism favoring the established order at the expense of the oppressed.
Meszaros 89 (Istvan, likes Marx not Adam Smith. The Power of Ideology, p 232-234)

Nowhere is the … philosophy can escape. 

All of their framework arguments rooted in switch side, predictability, fairness, bi-directionality etc… the list goes on …..are all just attempts to dehomosexualize the AFF.
Evans 12 (Rashad lawyer, professor, coach and entrepreneur.  He attended the University of West Georgia “Dehomosexualizing the Aff” 02. Jun, 2012  http://www.rwesq.com/dehomosexualizing-the-aff/ /RC)

As I watch the … to perform in drag?

Tournament: Fullerton | Round: Octas | Opponent: Oklahoma CL | Judge: 

Erotic Energy 1AC 

Worshipping the handsomely glorious body of Jesus hung from the cross, gay men enter into an act of erotic intimacy. I kneel and bring my gaze upward. There, in front of me, inviting in his semi-naked vulnerability, his arms open wide to embrace me, is suspended my God. 

I lovingly scrutinize his broken body. I kiss his bloody and tired feet. I place my hand gently on his sweaty thighs, allowing my fingers to touch, ever so lightly, the soiled and grimy loincloth covering his wondrous genitals. I linger.
I have heard and read about ecstatic medieval nuns communing with his radiantly glorified foreskin. I wish I could experience a similar moment of erotic grace and revelation, perhaps by taking him whole into my open, inviting mouth. I sense the growing hardness.
My hands travel up his firm, smooth chest, feeling his broken ribs and his leathery nipples as they come to life under the gentle pinch of my fingers. I place my head on his heart, my tears flowing down to his perfect navel. I lick them out with my tongue, tasting his delicately salty sweat. I rub and grope his thick arms, caressing them, and hear him moan in drunken pain.
 Moving slowly down to his punctured hands, I clean each finger in tum with my delirious tongue, sucking hungrily. I rub my cheek against his bearded face, transported by its rough and manly scrape. I tenderly kiss his fleshy ears, his burning mouth, his crusty eyes, his savagely lacerated forehead. He opens his eyes, a beatific smile of love playing on his gashed lips. He dies. My Lord, my All, my Savior. My sweet Jesus. Take me unto yourself. Make me one with you. 

The intersection between queer and religious identities is one of the ultimate examples of abjection. The queer experience is understood as sinful and polluting. This creates a relationship to queerness and queer bodies that attempts to control and stabilize it to prevent it from becoming to queer. Our affirmatives queering of our relationship with Jesus is one that bridges the gap between religious and queer culture that destabilizes the dominant cultural norms that allow for the exclusion of queer bodies.
Donald Boisvert in 20006 writes … 

Pollution is invariably in … of queer redemption. 

Heteronormativity that is reinforced through strong religious ethos has necessitated both physical and psychological violence against queer bodies. This has lead queer bodies suppressing and closeting their identities while also re-enforcing institutionalized heterosexism.
Dr Christine Loudes in 2003 writes … 

The experience of … to young LGB people. 

At Idaho State we walk around our campus and hear people speak not only negatively but also violently about queer bodies. We overhear conversations about how students love living in Idaho because they can get away with beating up the fags. However, these are not isolated events but are real events that happen at these very universities and these grounds that we stand on as we attend these debate tournaments. Diane Zosky in 2009 reveals accounts of these experiences which only serve to highlight how strong religious values influence this form of violence. Zosky explains …. 

In addition to … forever for it. 

Today at California State University, Fullerton we commune. It is interesting though. In some ways this community is a little bit religious. Even if not in the traditional sense, we defiantly produce and affirm certain sets up moral codes and norms. However, today I think that there is something different that I long for.
Blood was not what I truly craved in the intimacy of my unspoken obsession. It was the divine seed, the most perfect sign of the most perfect communion from that most perfect of all male bodies, for which I ached. I wanted to ingest and retain it (this host), so that it could make me his now and forever.... 

Our affirmative is an affirmation of erotic energy. Our desire for an erotic relationship with Jesus is one that queers that relationship. We desire and long for the cum of Jesus. Eroticism shapes our understanding and determines our orientation towards the world and the people that we interact with. It creates a new relationship to ourselves and our body that affirms erotic desire. Marvin Ellison in 1996 writes … 

If it is misleading … beyond their control. ¶  

The ballot acts as an affirmation of eroticism to evaluate and participate in the rejection of oppression and sex negativity.  We will refuse to follow the logic inscribed by the heterosexist order and keep our sexualities in the closet; the pleasure we can feel when making love provides a sense of joy that extends far beyond the bedroom.  Our politics are essential to a sexual revolution that creates authentic connections with others. Audre Lorde in 81 writes … 

Beyond the superficial… same weary drama. 

We all come into these spaces with different social locations and experiences. Putting our bodies on the lines to create radical communities of openness while coming together around difference is necessary in order to challenge the dominant culture that cause injustice.
 
Our coalitional politics is based on shared recognition of difference, and while that difference is not homogenized, it reformulates political organization against short term reformism and seeks a deeper, radical break.
Dean in 03
The term “heteronormativity” … those promises and risks.

  Boisvert 06 (Donald, Professor at Concordia, “Talking Dirty About Saints: Storytelling and the Politics of Desire,” Theology and Sexuality, Volume 12(2)RC)

  Boisvert 06 (Donald, Professor at Concordia, “Talking Dirty About Saints: Storytelling and the Politics of Desire,” Theology and Sexuality, Volume 12(2)RC)

  Loudes (Christine Dr. Christine Investigations Worker LEARNING TO GROW UP Multiple Identities of
Young Lesbians, Gay Men and Bisexual People in Northern Ireland” July 2003 http://www.france.qrd.org/texts/education/LearningtoGrowUp.pdf//RC) 

  Zosky 9 (Diane, Ph.D Associate Professor of Social Work “Education’s Missed Opportunity to Influence Tolerance: The Absence of LGBT Content in Curriculum” http://mediarelations.illinoisstate.edu/identity/0910/oct8/Survey-Zoskypub.pdf//RC) 

  Boisvert 06 (Donald, Professor at Concordia, “Talking Dirty About Saints: Storytelling and the Politics of Desire,” Theology and Sexuality, Volume 12(2)RC)

  Ellison 96 (Marvin Professor of Christian Ethics at Bangor Theological Seminary Erotic Justice: A Liberating Ethic of Sexuality pg. 78-81 RC)

  Lorde 81 (Audre, Feminst revolutionary writer and head of Table: Women of Color Press, The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, “The Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power,” RC)

Dean 03 (Tim, Professor of English at University of Buffalo, Cambridge Companion to Lacan, “Lacan and Queer Theory,” p. 238-41, Sydnor)

Tournament: Fullerton | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Northwestern LV | Judge:
When I first came out of the closet, it wasn’t an easy choice. I went back and forth about it, I was afraid of what my family would say. Would my brother understand? Would my mom cry? Would my dad lash out? Would the students at school find out? Would they yell at me, spit at me, hit me, add me to the pile of beaten, bruised, and dead queer bodies? It wasn’t an easy decision. I vacillated. I was afraid. But I decided to sit my parents down and face their judgment, good or bad. I walked up to them and I said… well, it’s not important what I said. What is important is that they said they understood, and that they allowed me to fully embody and express the desires I had.
Now I come back to the same decision making point. Is it time for me to come out again to the debate community? Will you understand? Will you lash out? Try and get me to check my subjectivity at the door? Or will you provide compassion, and try to listen to me – the real me?
We are obviously closet(ed) policy hacks. And in order to begin our coming out party, we’ll being with the plan:

The United States federal government should…(Grab biz)) (pause… for a while… seriously, just keep waiting… does it feel awkward yet… is it quiet? It should be. Keep waiting…)
Wait. Not so fast. Before beginning our process of revealing, its important that we ensure this round, this community, provide a safe space for queer subjectivities. 

Coming out, or staying in – the entire closet is performative. The aff is a performance of the closet. Affirm the control of the closet – and coming out – it shouldn’t be a process determined violently by heteronormiativity.
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, 2008 The Epistemology of the Closet, 3-4
Accordingly, one characteristic … as is knowledge.

The move to expose externally is violence towards queer bodies.

Schildcrout 11 (Jordan  assistant professor in the School of Theater at Ohio University “The Closet Is a Deathtrap:Bisexuality, Duplicity, and the Dangers of the Closet in the Postmodern Thriller” Theatre JournalVolume 63, Number 1, March 2011 Project Muse RC)

The 1969 Stonewall ….who threaten civilization.

This genocidal violence towards queer bodies can only result in total omnicide. 

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, 2008 The Epistemology of the Closet, 127-130
From at least the … opened and opened?

The formation of queer subjectivity is a precondition to policy prescriptions.

Roger Mourad(Phd, post structural theorist of education)  Teachers College Record, v103 n5 p739-59 Oct 2001 14-18
The idea that …policy, and practice.

The impulse to engage the state with fidelity should be viewed with extreme queer skepticism – the state is unfamiliar to queer bodies outside of violence acted on the queer. The new knowledge produced through the affirmation of the closet is prior to the impulse for problem solutions – our aff is a policy corrective, not avoidance – our queering is the only way to avoid violence.

Berlant and Warner 95
Lauren and Michael PMLA ¶ 110"What Does Queer Theory Teach Us¶ about X?"¶ LAUREN BERLANT, professor¶ of English at the University of¶ Chicago, is -MICHAEL WARNER,¶ associate professor of English·¶ at Rutgers University, New¶ Brunswick 

When a new thing … teach us about sex?

Drawing arbitrary lines about what kinds of argument should and should not count disciplines dissent. There is no rule book – saying that we can play, but only if we play by their rules is worse than not playing at all. The elimination of critique from policy debates creates the very climate of fear and ignorance that produces warfare. Our model of inclusion without constraint is not a condemnation of democratic politics, but is itself the very essence and practice of democracy.
Butler 04 (Judith, Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley , “Precarious Life: The Power of Mourning and Violence” p. xix-xxi)

Dissent and debate … effects of war. 

We are the only ones who solve the the I/L -- The exclusion of the body generates the fear and apathy, reducing politics to knowledge and particular research is inadequate to mobilize bodies. 

Martin 90 (Randy, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Pratt Institute, Performance as Political Act: The Embodied Self, 1-3, Sydnor)

Act! The command … distance from involve-  ment.

 
Turn/ Makes exclusion worse. Reform stabilizes status quo oppression
Spade ‘11 ,Dean “Trans-Formative Change” Meaghan Winter interviews Dean Spade, Guernica Magazine March 2011 taught classes on gender and law at CUNY, Seattle University, and Harvard University. 

Guernica: Can you … conditions of maldistribution. 

Tolerance vs. acceptance - Their framework argument is rooted in tolerance i.e. they would allow us to participate in their community because it’s the “right thing to do” but only if we do so in the exact way that their interpretation because they hate everything that we find valuable about debate. This only serves to fuel homophobia and homophobic violence as it becomes a guise for acceptance.  
Campbell 2 (John H. “Beyond Tolerance” http://whosoever.org/v6i6/campbell.html//RC)

Let's talk for a moment … and based in fear.

Tournament: Val RR | Round: 2 | Opponent: UNLV BV | Judge: Jamie Cheek
Something always bothers me when debaters act as if this round would ever “leave the room.” I would much rather frame this round as our dirty little secret. It’s just sexier that way. When somebody lets me sneak a peek under their skirt, I don’t go tell everybody outside smoking about it, I keep the secret going, in the hopes that it will happen again, the anticipation makes me nearly pop, it’s not my responsibility to out people, each of us must navigate the conflict between the self-subjugating violence of checking one’s subjectivity at the door and the violence of society’s categories of subhuman, sometimes this negotiation with the closet door is so overwhelmingly catastrophic but other times it is just what one craves, a subdued excited erotic energy waiting just beneath the surface, waiting to be fracked out, hot, starting with the ankles, powered with a full head of steam, across the starved and drought-ridden valley of your thighs, fuck! this death valley, fuck! thirst, FUCK!, I stand erect ready to provide the moisture, this bottle has no label, but don’t worry the perspiration on its cover should reassure you that it comes from my chilly little cooler, just drink it before you die!, put it in your mouth!, and then let me have it, we are in the desert and there is nobody for miles,
that’s right, I did it, I did it with her backwards, I did it with him and nobody knew, it was me, I did it with the candlestick in the observatory, with the wine bottle and my hand clenched in a fist, pushing up against the door for leverage, please-don’t-walk-in, please-don’t-walk-in, please-walk-in, more, MORE, I LOVE THE POLITICS DA!, wait, did I just say that?, fuck this was just supposed to be our latest queer theory aff, oh well…
“I am a closeted policy-hack,” I admit it here and now, just don’t tell my coaches, our dirty little secret, sometimes at night, after Roger falls asleep I get my special towel and I sneak onto the internet to cut updates, its not so hard to cut, so many articles jammed into my RSS feed, so many cards on a page, the tags: so short, so to the point: Obama up, Obama down, oh the search terms, “political capital,” “Boehner, Boehner, Boehner,” if you say it three times it might appear, “Agenda,” “influence,” “Boehner,” “pass,” “not pass,” the terms just keep on coming, Oh-my-God-I-cut-this-last-night

Obama Capital Low: Gridlock Inevitable
The Detroit News 1-23-13 (“Obama’s Uphill Agenda,” http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130124/OPINION01/301240324/1008/opinion01/Obama-s-uphill-agenda)
¶ First up is certain … of political capital."

OMG, Roger I need some water, drink, its so stuffy in here, I need to take some clothes off and hang them up, where was I? Right. Closeted-policy-hack,
I can’t get enough of the topic, behind closed doors, purity is a lie, deception is truth, and there is no such thing as clean coal, only dirty, Wind turbines setting birds on fire, chemical slurry infecting hard rock, so violently edgy, from the geological-perspective, a hypothetical snuff film, in fact… I’m sorry Roger, you’re just going to have to go with it:
Resolved: The United States Federal Government should…. On second thought some things are sexier when they are kept secret.
There is no way for me to fully come out here. All categories fall short: lesbian, gay, straight, bisexual, policy, critical, whatever. Very few of us ever fully come out of the closet, who of us make the keyholes to all of our erotic desires part of our public persona?, the official record of our “sexual preference.”    

Coming out, or staying in – the entire closet is performative. The aff is a performance of the closet. Affirm the control of the closet – and coming out – it shouldn’t be a process determined violently by heteronormativity. The move to expose externally is violence towards queer bodies.
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, 2008 The Epistemology of the Closet, 3-4
Accordingly, one characteristic … there as is knowledge.

The visceral violence of queer bashing will culminate in a gay genocide. However, Because queer bodies cannot be distinctly marked out by one visible identifier, we destroy ourselves in the drive to purification, culminating in omnicide.
Sedgwick 08
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, 2008 The Epistemology of the Closet, 127-130
From at least the biblical … opened and opened?

The exclusion of the body generates the fear and apathy, reducing politics to knowledge and particular research is inadequate to mobilize bodies.
Martin 90 (Randy, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Pratt Institute, Performance as Political Act: The Embodied Self, 1-3, Sydnor)
Act! The command … from involve-  ment.

 
Eroticism allows us to rewrite the dominant scripts of our lives to open ourselves up to the vulnerability of other bodies. This move beyond liberal individualism, the AFFECTIVE,  is the pre-condition for ethics.
Rodríguez 11
"Queer Sociality and Other Sexual Fantasies¶ Juana María Rodríguez¶ GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Volume 17, Numbers¶ 2-3, 2011, pp. 331-348 (Article)¶ Published by Duke University Press (MI)
That so often we …relations that surround us.

To dismiss sexuality is to pathologize the bodies whom this excess is mapped onto. These bodies are asked to sacrifice their pleasures for some future, reproductive good that never benefits us.
Rodríguez 11
"Queer Sociality and Other Sexual Fantasies¶ Juana María Rodríguez¶ GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Volume 17, Numbers¶ 2-3, 2011, pp. 331-348 (Article)¶ Published by Duke University Press (MI)
¶ While all of this …servitude and submission?

Linguistic commonality is impossible. Community is destroyed by sameness. A successful community ought to be defined to its relationship to difference not a neutral playing field.
Secomb 00 (Linnell, a lecturer in Gender Studies at the University of Sydney “Fractured Community” Hypatia – Volume 15 Number 2 Spring 2000 pg. 138-139. RC)
This reformulated universalist … homogeneity and transparency.

Training models of education enforce the privatization of violence for an abstract future that may never come, rather than the here and now of our lives. Makes us bad policy makers and ethical beings.
Roger Mourad(Phd, post structural theorist of education)  Teachers College Record, v103 n5 p739-59 Oct 2001 14-18
The idea that …philosophy, policy, and practice.

The impulse to engage the state with fidelity should be viewed with extreme queer skepticism – the state is unfamiliar to queer bodies outside of violence acted on the queer. The new knowledge produced through the affirmation of the closet is prior to the impulse for problem solutions – our aff is a policy corrective, not avoidance – our queering is the only way to avoid violence.
Berlant and Warner 95
Lauren and Michael PMLA ¶ 110"What Does Queer Theory Teach Us¶ about X?"¶ LAUREN BERLANT, professor¶ of English at the University of¶ Chicago, is -MICHAEL WARNER,¶ associate professor of English·¶ at Rutgers University, New¶ Brunswick
When a new thing emerges, … · · theory teach us about sex?

Drawing arbitrary lines about what kinds of argument should and should not count disciplines dissent. There is no rule book – saying that we can play, but only if we play by their rules is worse than not playing at all. The elimination of critique from policy debates creates the very climate of fear and ignorance that produces warfare. Our model of inclusion without constraint is not a condemnation of democratic politics, but is itself the very essence and practice of democracy.
Butler 04 (Judith, Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley , “Precarious Life: The Power of Mourning and Violence” p. xix-xxi)
Dissent and debate … the effects of war. 

Turn/ Makes exclusion worse. Reform stabilizes status quo oppression
Spade ‘11 ,Dean “Trans-Formative Change” Meaghan Winter interviews Dean Spade, Guernica Magazine March 2011 taught classes on gender and law at CUNY, Seattle University, and Harvard University.
Guernica: Can you tell … existing conditions of maldistribution. 

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Off the map and off the grid, we debate on the American Frontier. An empty space, a nowhere place, dusted with snow, stagnant, backwards, and 20 years behind the rest of the country.  But who notices anyway? SPRING BREAK! As long as there’s thai food, what’s the difference: It’s all just hotel rooms, stairwells, electronic-cigarettes, and computer screens, right? Such an ideal non-environment for the ideal speech communication, an abstraction divorced from place and time. What is time? What is the present, and what makes it not the past? The past remains stubbornly with us, but always constrained and conditioned by place; time rushes like the Snake River at the peak of its spring orgasm, these banks are gonna burst, and nowhere in Pocatello is safe! Beyond the map and beyond the grid,  
(in prep time you should Wikipedia the Yellowstone Caldera) : Time is impossible, good thing we’ve got the SQUO to solve that for us! Time intersects with this place at a colonial, sexual, and geological level. Before this place had any relation to the city, white humans came over the Wasatch Mountains and said of the Salt Lake Valley: “It is enough. This is the right place. Drive on.”  An “untouched” virgin landscape for a celestial community and masturbatory preparations for the apocalypse, a few of those came up north, a long journey that is now about a 2 hour van ride , along the way these humans encountered some natives, the Shoshone and others were already well acquainted with two-spirit people , but the cattle herders and soldiers snuck into the darkness of the scrub oak to exchange erotic male pleasantries, complicating their eternal salvations, they were well trained in the portable skills of the day, decision-making of policymakers, and were well-backed by federals; they knew what to do, and on a single day in the Seuhubeogoi, hundreds were converted with blood , when they reached to the Portneuf Valley, and met Chief Pocatello, all of this was already rural space. The ranchers cattle ate all the grasses, ever since the grass has been hard to find, the landscape was carefully dissected into agricultural plots, trade, churches, brick ovens, wells and roads, surveyors would soon be in search of coal, the Portneuf would fill with condoms and garbage, far too many gentlemen were sneaking off in the middle of the night with other gentlemen, something had to be done, meaning of rural America was hotly contested          
Sandilands 2005 (Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Sustainability and Culture @ NYU, “Unnatural Passions?: Notes Toward a Queer Ecology,” Invisible Culture: an Electronic Journal for Visual Culture, Issue 9, http://www.invisibleculture.rochester.edu/in_visible_culture/Issue_9/issue9_sandilands.pdf)
The linkage of … particular landscapes.
By the time Roger and I arrived in Pocatello, its meaning was already being framed in the nuclear context, economically fueled by the nuclear industry, with a strong contingent simultaneously enforcing the nuclear family, recently, 1.3 miles from this very debate , multiple violent heterosexists, sought out victims outside Eastern Idaho’s only gay bar , for us, these news reports came as no surprise, we have seen first-hand the confrontation between the saints  and Pocatello’s non-hetero community.
Stanley '11
Eric "Near Life, Queer Death:Overkill and Ontological Capture" Social Text 107 • Vol. 29, No. 2 • Summer 2011  Emeritus at Pembroke College, Oxford University

Currently the FBI, …remake them both.20 (Ableism modified)
However, Due east… along the 86, some queers have not sought to integrate, lesbian separatists have found an alternate relation with community, heteronormativity, and a unique ecological consciousness
Sandilands 2005 (Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Sustainability and Culture @ NYU, “Unnatural Passions?: Notes Toward a Queer Ecology,” Invisible Culture: an Electronic Journal for Visual Culture, Issue 9, http://www.invisibleculture.rochester.edu/in_visible_culture/Issue_9/issue9_sandilands.pdf)
Influenced by these … and¶ other species.

Out here in the wilderness, we are not stacked on top of each other, for us community is about fracture, too often we are read as homogenous, we have no linguistic commonality and no shared meaning, enforcing a homogenous definition of community especially linguistic sameness leads to racism, classism and heterosexism
seecomb 

This 1ac is an project set against the Heterosexist assumptions that directly contribute to the project to exterminate queer life
Stanley '11
Eric "Near Life, Queer Death:Overkill and Ontological Capture" Social Text 107 • Vol. 29, No. 2 • Summer 2011  Emeritus at Pembroke College, Oxford University

Thinking violence as … fifty wounds signify?

Many debates engage in a training model that assume an abstract disconnected and neutral discussion which abdicates individual ethical responsibility and ignores the context of real-life political decision-making. This view refuses to consider the way participation in community implicates all of member to consider the violence on its periphery. This is an empirically failed frame that perpetuates the social order for those who benefit from it.

Roger Mourad(Phd, post structural theorist of education)  Teachers College Record, v103 n5 p739-59 Oct 2001 14-18
The idea that …policy, and practice.
Abstract and detached understandings of place and space lead to disembodied orientation to the world, fail to reckon with queerness
Baker 12 (Kelly The University of Western Ontario “Taking New Directions: How Rural Queerness Provides Unique Insights into Place, Class, and Visibility” Totem: The University of Western Ontario Journal of Anthropology Volume 20 | Issue 1 Article 2 7-1-2012RC)

Despite the in-flux ….rural queer communities.

Status quo political inclusion fails: incorporates narrowly defines homosexuals into hetero-normative systems, the perspective of rural queers disrupts this process at an epistemological level
Sandilands 2005 (Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Sustainability and Culture @ NYU, “Unnatural Passions?: Notes Toward a Queer Ecology,” Invisible Culture: an Electronic Journal for Visual Culture, Issue 9, http://www.invisibleculture.rochester.edu/in_visible_culture/Issue_9/issue9_sandilands.pdf)
The final section …. naturalness of¶ heterosexuality.

The narrative of urban safety enforces a false histories that erases rural queers as incomplete and subhuman
Baker 12 (Kelly The University of Western Ontario “Taking New Directions: How Rural Queerness Provides Unique Insights into Place, Class, and Visibility” Totem: The University of Western Ontario Journal of Anthropology Volume 20 | Issue 1 Article 2 7-1-2012RC)

Not only, then, … thus also been overlooked (McDermott 2010:199).
There is no universal definition of queerness or queer theory: the perspectives described in this 1ac resist homogenous readings of identity
Halberstam 5 (J Jack (Judith) cultural critic, a transgender theorist, and an activist  Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Gender Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California “In A Queer Time and Place – Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives” 2005RC)

Most theories of … in dominant nations.9¶¶ 

Rural queerness must be recognized otherwise queer theory falls prey to the closet model of subjectivity   
Baker 12 (Kelly The University of Western Ontario “Taking New Directions: How Rural Queerness Provides Unique Insights into Place, Class, and Visibility” Totem: The University of Western Ontario Journal of Anthropology Volume 20 | Issue 1 Article 2 7-1-2012RC)

Growing up different … or queer movement.

Rural Lesbian Separatist communities prove that queerness is not a distinctly urban identity and they also disrupt heterosexist social understandings within rural culture
Sandilands 2002 (Catriona, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Sustainability and Culture @ NYU, “Lesbian Separatist Communities and the Experience of Nature: Toward a Queer Ecology,” Organization Environment 2002; 15; 131, http://www.lespantheresroses.org/textes/lesbian-communities-and-ecology.pdf)
¶ So the Oregon … heterosexual nuclear¶ families.

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Worshipping the handsomely glorious body of Jesus hung from the cross, gay men enter into an act of erotic intimacy. I kneel and bring my gaze upward. There, in front of me, inviting in his semi-naked vulnerability, his arms open wide to embrace me, is suspended my God. 

I lovingly scrutinize his broken body. I kiss his bloody and tired feet. I place my hand gently on his sweaty thighs, allowing my fingers to touch, ever so lightly, the soiled and grimy loincloth covering his wondrous genitals. I linger.
I have heard and read about ecstatic medieval nuns communing with his radiantly glorified foreskin. I wish I could experience a similar moment of erotic grace and revelation, perhaps by taking him whole into my open, inviting mouth. I sense the growing hardness.
My hands travel up his firm, smooth chest, feeling his broken ribs and his leathery nipples as they come to life under the gentle pinch of my fingers. I place my head on his heart, my tears flowing down to his perfect navel. I lick them out with my tongue, tasting his delicately salty sweat. I rub and grope his thick arms, caressing them, and hear him moan in drunken pain.
 Moving slowly down to his punctured hands, I clean each finger in tum with my delirious tongue, sucking hungrily. I rub my cheek against his bearded face, transported by its rough and manly scrape. I tenderly kiss his fleshy ears, his burning mouth, his crusty eyes, his savagely lacerated forehead. He opens his eyes, a beatific smile of love playing on his gashed lips. He dies. My Lord, my All, my Savior. My sweet Jesus. Take me unto yourself. Make me one with you. 

The intersection between queer and religious identities is one of the ultimate examples of abjection. The queer experience is understood as sinful and polluting. This creates a relationship to queerness and queer bodies that attempts to control and stabilize it to prevent it from becoming to queer. Our affirmatives queering of our relationship with Jesus is one that bridges the gap between religious and queer culture that destabilizes the dominant cultural norms that allow for the exclusion of queer bodies.
Donald Boisvert in 20006 writes … 

Pollution is invariably in … of queer redemption. 

Heteronormativity that is reinforced through strong religious ethos has necessitated both physical and psychological violence against queer bodies. This has lead queer bodies suppressing and closeting their identities while also re-enforcing institutionalized heterosexism.
Dr Christine Loudes in 2003 writes … 

The experience of … to young LGB people. 

At Idaho State we walk around our campus and hear people speak not only negatively but also violently about queer bodies. We overhear conversations about how students love living in Idaho because they can get away with beating up the fags. However, these are not isolated events but are real events that happen at these very universities and these grounds that we stand on as we attend these debate tournaments. Diane Zosky in 2009 reveals accounts of these experiences which only serve to highlight how strong religious values influence this form of violence. Zosky explains …. 

In addition to … forever for it. 

Today at the NDT we commune. It is interesting though. In some ways this community is a little bit religious. Even if not in the traditional sense, we defiantly produce and affirm certain sets up moral codes and norms. However, today I think that there is something different that I long for.
Blood was not what I truly craved in the intimacy of my unspoken obsession. It was the divine seed, the most perfect sign of the most perfect communion from that most perfect of all male bodies, for which I ached. I wanted to ingest and retain it (this host), so that it could make me his now and forever.... 

Our affirmative is an affirmation of erotic energy. Our desire for an erotic relationship with Jesus is one that queers that relationship. We desire and long for the cum of Jesus. Eroticism shapes our understanding and determines our orientation towards the world and the people that we interact with. It creates a new relationship to ourselves and our body that affirms erotic desire. Marvin Ellison in 1996 writes … 

If it is misleading … beyond their control. ¶  

The ballot acts as an affirmation of eroticism to evaluate and participate in the rejection of oppression and sex negativity.  We will refuse to follow the logic inscribed by the heterosexist order and keep our sexualities in the closet; the pleasure we can feel when making love provides a sense of joy that extends far beyond the bedroom.  Our politics are essential to a sexual revolution that creates authentic connections with others. Audre Lorde in 81 writes … 

Beyond the superficial… same weary drama. 

We all come into these spaces with different social locations and experiences. Putting our bodies on the lines to create radical communities of openness while coming together around difference is necessary in order to challenge the dominant culture that cause injustice.

Our coalitional politics is based on shared recognition of difference, and while that difference is not homogenized, it reformulates political organization against short term reformism and seeks a deeper, radical break.
Dean in 03
The term “heteronormativity” … those promises and risks.

  Boisvert 06 (Donald, Professor at Concordia, “Talking Dirty About Saints: Storytelling and the Politics of Desire,” Theology and Sexuality, Volume 12(2)RC)

  Boisvert 06 (Donald, Professor at Concordia, “Talking Dirty About Saints: Storytelling and the Politics of Desire,” Theology and Sexuality, Volume 12(2)RC)

  Loudes (Christine Dr. Christine Investigations Worker LEARNING TO GROW UP Multiple Identities of
Young Lesbians, Gay Men and Bisexual People in Northern Ireland” July 2003 http://www.france.qrd.org/texts/education/LearningtoGrowUp.pdf//RC) 

  Zosky 9 (Diane, Ph.D Associate Professor of Social Work “Education’s Missed Opportunity to Influence Tolerance: The Absence of LGBT Content in Curriculum” http://mediarelations.illinoisstate.edu/identity/0910/oct8/Survey-Zoskypub.pdf//RC) 

  Boisvert 06 (Donald, Professor at Concordia, “Talking Dirty About Saints: Storytelling and the Politics of Desire,” Theology and Sexuality, Volume 12(2)RC)

  Ellison 96 (Marvin Professor of Christian Ethics at Bangor Theological Seminary Erotic Justice: A Liberating Ethic of Sexuality pg. 78-81 RC)

  Lorde 81 (Audre, Feminst revolutionary writer and head of Table: Women of Color Press, The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, “The Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power,” RC)

Dean 03 (Tim, Professor of English at University of Buffalo, Cambridge Companion to Lacan, “Lacan and Queer Theory,” p. 238-41, Sydnor)

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Framework

The impact to this is shaming and ceding politics to heterosexual males. This becomes projected against queer bodies in a violent move

Ellison ’96 (Marvin Mahan. Erotic Justice: A Liberating Ethic of Sexuality, 1996. Pg. 10-11)

Conventional Christian moral …. sexuality and spirituality.

Secomb 00 (Linnell, a lecturer in Gender Studies at the University of Sydney "Fractured Community" Hypatia – Volume 15 Number 2 Spring 2000 pg. 138-139. RC)

This reformulated universalist …homogeneity and transparency.

Additionally, this "’neutral" discussion they enforce becomes taken over by forces of heterosexism in the same ways whiteness fills in unmarked spaces– These standards ensure that those who speak and think the straightest will win.

Delgado 92 (Richard, Law Prof @ U of Colorado, "Shadowboxing: An Essay on Power," Cornell Law Review, May, Sydnor)

The debate on objective … away with it.

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AT:Kware

Queer is not homogenous – it interrogates the construction and oppression of all identities

Brown and Browne 07.  Geographies of Sexualities". Kath Browne is Lecturer in the School of the Environment, University of Brighton, UK. Jason Lim is Lecturer in Geography at the University of Southampton, UK. Gavin Brown is at Kings College London, UK. P9
Throughout this book … Chapters 8, this volume).  

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AT: Fem

The permutation is net beneficial—only the reoccupation of the master’s discourse from multiple sites of oppression can solve

Butler, Professor of Rhetoric at Berkeley, 2004 ~Judith, "Bodies That Matter," Engaging with Irigaray, Ed. Burke, Schor, Whitford, p.p. 164-165~
Significantly, this prohibition … by which we proceed.
Butler, 97  (Judith, Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative, p. 99-100)
An aesthetic enactment … open to reuse.

Monopoly DA— Their understanding of femininity as pure negativity, the absolutely otherized in masculine discourse, is an illegitimate monopoly that reproduces masculine violence—otherization functions plurally, making use of women, slaves, children, and animals among others

Butler, Professor of Rhetoric at Berkeley, 2004 ~Judith, "Bodies That Matter," Engaging with Irigaray, Ed. Burke, Schor, Whitford, p.p. 160-162~
So perhaps here … of sexual difference. 

• • Berlant 94  
    Lauren  Berlant  "America, Fat, the Fetus" Boundary 2, Vol. 21, ~%23 3. (Autumn, 1994), pp. 145-195  Dept. of Eng %26 Lit @ Univ of Chicago  (MI)

Most Anglo-American ... future as well.   

Organicism DA- It turns debate community into a drive to purity by idealizing an organic purity of womanhood. Their inability to recognize the nuances of gender privilege link queerness to abjection and decadence.

Bray 01
"Not woman enough: Irigaray’s culture of difference" Feminist Theory December 2001 vol. 2 no. 3 311-327 Prof @ Murdoch Univ Accessed at sagepub (MI)
pg. 320-21
As Gomel comments: Equality … and healing force.