Tournament: Pre-GSU Aff Disclosure | Round: 1 | Opponent: na | Judge: na

Contention 1

1. US exceptionalism creates homonationalism, where even queer bodies are included in the patriotic order as long as they conform to traditional practices of citizenship – unstable sexualities are projected outwards on the Other, creating our flawed and sexualized understanding of the Terrorist.

Puar 2007 ~Jasbir, Professor of women’s and gender studies at Rutgers University, Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times~ Awirth
Hate crimes against … with one another.
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2. Terrorism discourse is rooted in Western psychology and cultural analysis that emphasizes the sexual and familial flaws of the terrorist mind – by asserting a logic of failed heterosexuality, both the terrorist and the queer are placed outside citizenship

Puar and Rai 2002 (Jasbir, Associate Professor at Rutgers University, and Amit, Associate Professor at Stanford University, and#34;Monster, Terrorist, Fag: The War on Terrorism and the Production of Docile Patriotsand#34;. Social Text, 72. Vol. 20, No. 3. Fall 2002. pp. 122-125) ~nagel~
Counterterrorism is a form … rituals of heteronormativity.
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3. US imperialism is rooted in asserted universality to interpolate the outside and reinforce heteronormative practices, even by traditional queer movements – this creates zones of exception that justify continued violence against the Other.

Puar 2007 ~Jasbir, Professor of women’s and gender studies at Rutgers University, Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times~ Awirth
Reflecting upon contemporary debates … and sexual acts.
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4. Detention and associated practices of torture are rooted in the idea of queer otherness, where certain sex acts are seen to be unnatural and befitting for the sexualized Muslim to experience because of their placement outside of US citizenship exceptionalism

Puar 2007 ~Jasbir, Professor of women’s and gender studies at Rutgers University, Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times~ Awirth
The torture of Iraqi prisoners … torture’s corporeal potency.
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5. Indefinite detention is rooted in heteronormative formations of sex, gender, and family – this respatialization creates the ultimate violence against the non-citizen

Puar 2007 ~Jasbir, Professor of women’s and gender studies at Rutgers University, Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times~ Awirth
Second, the Aclu report … are biopolitical comrades.
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6. The presidency and his war powers are viewed through a lens of hypermasculinity where emotion is perceived as weak and feminine – this reification of ’warrior logic’ justifies creating an exceptional Other and is the root of War on Terror policymaking

Athanassiou 2012 ~Cerelia, PhD candidate at the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies (SPAIS) at the University of Bristol, ’Gutsy’ Decisions and Passive Processes, International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2012 iFirst article, 1–20~ Awirth
The decision to kill … ’exceptionalism’ of security.
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7. The hyper-masculinization of the president frames the War on Terror in absolutist aggression that is the root of indefinite detention and torture – creates a frame of exceptionalism that allows infinite violence against the Other

Athanassiou 2012 ~Cerelia, PhD candidate at the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies (SPAIS) at the University of Bristol, ’Gutsy’ Decisions and Passive Processes, International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2012 iFirst article, 1–20~ Awirth We disagree with the gendered language used.
The GWOT represents, on … and militarized ’exceptional’.?
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Advocacy Statement

Andrew and I contend that we should substantially increase restrictions on the war powers authority of the President of the United States in the area of indefinite detention by critiquing, through assemblages, the intersection of identities that detain the terrorist.  

Contention 2

1. Assemblages allow for a rupture for the narrative of exceptionalism that is based on stable intersections of stable identity.

Puar 2007 ~Jasbir, Professor of women’s and gender studies at Rutgers University, Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times~ Awirth
Identity is one effect … or without being. 32?

2. This rhetoric of debates about hegemony ignore the underlying teleology of US exceptionalism and its violent inclusion of comfortable difference – interrogation is a key prior step to understand the creation of such exceptions

Puar 2007 ~Jasbir, Professor of women’s and gender studies at Rutgers University, Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times~ Awirth
Given that our contemporary … becomes the normal?

3. Our combined examination of race and gender under the state is crucial to understanding bio-necropolitical being in the state of exception free from the trope of production and reproduction

Puar 2007 ~Jasbir, Professor of women’s and gender studies at Rutgers University, Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times~ Awirth
Many accounts of contemporary … so, for whom?

4. Status Quo doesn’t solve – movements have been bought out by the military industrial complex – that causes fragmenting queer movements.

Kapp-Klote 2013 ~Hannah, Contributing Writer at PolicyMic, Human Rights Campaign: Largest LGBT Donors Are Drone Manufacturers, http://www.policymic.com/articles/39043/human-rights-campaign-largest-lgbt-donors-are-drone-manufacturers~~ Awirth
In the 1960s and … progressive nor equal. ?

5. This uniquely crushes the movements —- allows for the military industrial complex to decouple sexuality and militarism.

Thrasher 4-30-2013 ~Stephen, Winner of the 2012 journalist of the year award from the National Lesbian 26 Gay Journalists Association and 2010 Winner of the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, Haaay to the Chief: The Military-Industrial Complex Conquers the Homos, http://gawker.com/haaay-to-the-chief-the-military-industrial-complex-con-486133694~~ Awirth
To the Professional Homosexual, … or corporate greed.?

6. Our advocacy calls into the question currents methods of movements within queer liberation —- only the AFFs question of inclusion allows for new resistance.

Yekani et al. 2013 ~Elahe Haschemi Yekani, lecturer and in 2011 guest professor in the Department of English and American Studies at Humboldt-University (Berlin), Eveline Kilian, English Literature and Culture and Co-Director of the Centre for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies at Humboldt-University (Berlin). and Beatrice Michaelis, Head of Research and Postdoctoral Fellow at the International Graduate Center for the Study of Culture, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany, Queer Futures: Introducing Queer Futures~ Awirth?
Historically, and#34;queerand#34; has … politics of refusal.
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