Tournament: Sac State | Round: 1 | Opponent: Whitman KN | Judge: Alexis Litzky

there is a performative component of the 1AC

Women are underrepresented in debate in an age where the majority of college graduates are female. The community can no longer blame the inequality on the structural inequality in society at large. It is a problem with the debate community and there is no room for further excuses.

Matz and Bruschke 06 S. Irene, Associate Dean, College of Communications Associate Professor, Department of Human Communication Studies  California State University Fullerton. Jon, Ph.D.; Professor and Debate Coach, California State University Fullerton. Contemporary Argumentation and Debate, Vol. 27 (2006) 29. Gender Inequity In Debate, Legal And Business Professions. http://commfaculty.fullerton.edu/imatz/Research_Articles/Gender_Inequity/Gender_inequity_in_debate.htm {Shoell}

The question of gender diversity in intercollegiate debate Continues to stir interest and concern
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address gender diversity in a more systematic way than it has thus far.

And then we minorities, we need a partner who will balance us out because clearly we’re not capable of winning our own args. We need someone who will be techy for us. This is a manifestation of the extremity of the sexism debate participates in.

Hobbs 92, Lisa, former University of North Carolina debater. Symposium: Women in Debate: Reflections on the Ongoing Struggle http://groups.wfu.edu/debate/MiscSites/DRGArticles/Oudingetal1992Pollution.htm {Shoell}

An experience that all policy debaters share is that of selecting or receiving a partner
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for female debaters is directly linked with the fact that they are females.

To exist in such a subversively violence community we must be tough, we must fight for our own because nothing will ever be given to us, even if we deserve it. We have to be bitches to survive.

Coffey 12 Tabatha, For 10 years Coffey represented a globally know hair company as a key member of the artistic team. In addition to regularly traveling around the world to educate stylists and represent the company at hair shows, Coffey also worked closely to help create the incredible hairstyles featured in advertising and trend collection imagery.  Hairstylist; Salon owner; TV personality. I Am a Bitch! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tabatha-coffey/i-am-a-bitch_b_1194001.html {Shoell}

I am a bitch, or so many people have told me in numerous situations
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touch with their own inner bitches and make the world a bitchier place!

We affirm that we are bitches.

Kylie Murphy of Murdoch University explains that Kylie Murphy 02 Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honors in Communication Studies. Doctor of Philosophy of Murdoch University. Bitch: The Politics of Angry Women. Pg 11-12

Presented above are the two poles – derogatory and complimentary – along which the definition
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the bitch, women are incorporating these traits as part of normative femininity.

Of course there is conflict within feminism, we use out bitchiness to articulate dissatisfaction with the status quo as well as with current feminist movements.

Kylie continues by saying that
 Kylie Murphy 02 Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honors in Communication Studies. Doctor of Philosophy of Murdoch University. Bitch: The Politics of Angry Women. Pg 14-15

This thesis is intentionally structured as a series of essays built around different figures.
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engages with feminisms that stretch past the academy while remaining situated within it.

Tournament: Gonzaga | Round: 1 | Opponent: - | Judge: -
Contention One is Indefinite Detention
First, indefinite detention is made possible by the sovereign declaration of the state of exception. Detention centers produce bare life mirroring the exceptionalism of the sovereign authority to commit violence without consequence.  
Van Munster 04 Rens, University of Southern Denmark¶ Department of Political Science Senior Researcher. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law. The War On Terrorism: When The Exception. Pg 141-153. {Shoell}

Schmitt thus inverses the traditional Hobbesian definition of¶ sovereignty as the juridical sanctioned power
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hand and reduce political subjects to the naked life of homo¶ sacer.

And, the transformation of life into bare life is visible in the juridico-political structure of detainment centers. Terrorists are the embodiment of bare life. Their existence is criminalized and morally degraded, which justifies their complete annihilation.
Van Munster 04 Rens, University of Southern Denmark¶ Department of Political Science Senior Researcher. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law. The War On Terrorism: When The Exception. Pg 141-153. {Shoell}

And, indefinite detention centers are vanishing points that must be brought into view. Revealing the juridical mechanisms of power that constitute these spaces of exception is the first step to opposing them.

Gregory 7 (Derek, Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia, “Vanishing Points: Law, Violence and Exception in the Global War Prison,” From: Violent Geographies: Fear, Terror and Political Violence, ISBN: 041595147)IAA

The ‘vanishing points’ that I seek to identify in this essay can be brought
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realized through a series of spaces that fold in and out of them.¶
And, the state of exception has become normalized in the liberal preoccupation with security. Indefinite detention centers are the outgrowth of a larger military-industrial-prison-security complex that normalizes state violence and racializes punishment. 

Pugliese 2013 Pugliese, Joseph Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at Macquarie University. State Violence and the Execution of Law: Biopolitcal Caesurae of Torture, Black Sites, Drones. 2013; Law and the PostcolonialBlackMagic

 In his lectures on biopolitics and the critical role of liberalism in shaping the
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be adversely affected by ... leniency conviction or parole standards and sentencing practices."

And securitization justifies endless war and the extermination of difference.
Dillon, 2008 (Michael, “Revisiting Franco’s Death” Foucault on Politics, Security and War. Pg 176-178)

If Foucault is right, that liberal peace is the extension of war by other
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- is the liberal way of war (Dillon and Reid, 2008).

Contention Two is Archaeology of Exceptionalism
Hannah and I affirm the 1AC as an archaeological criticism of the indefinite detention war power authority of the President of the United States.

First, archaeological criticism is the best method to reveal the extra discursive formations at work in maintaining the state of exception
Neal 2006 (Dr Andrew Neal Senior Lecturer Politics and International Relations, School of Social and Political Science University of Edinburgh Foucault in Guantánamo: Towards an Archaeology of the Exception http://sdi.sagepub.com/content/37/1/31.full.pdf+html MT

Fourth, exceptionalism is a much wider problem than can be explained through a genealogical
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that we must reveal and describe. (Foucault, 2002a: 54)    

And, our method applied to indefinite detention is key to interrogating the violent exceptionalism of the U.S.
Neal 6 Andrew School of Politics, International Relations and Philosophy,¶ Keele University, UK. Special Section: Theorizing the Liberty-Security Relation:¶ Sovereignty, Liberalism and Exceptionalism. Foucault in Guantánamo: Towards an Archaeology of the Exception. Pg 31-36 {Shoell}
It is almost as though Guantánamo Bay were the public face of exceptionalism.¶ We
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. This analysis can never be comprehensive¶ or totalizing, only partial.
And, privilege our analysis over the technologies of risk that mirror the logic of the exception and have empirically created a permanent state of war.
Van Munster 04 Rens, University of Southern Denmark¶ Department of Political Science Senior Researcher. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law. The War On Terrorism: When The Exception. Pg 141-153. {Shoell}

Following Agamben, this paper has argued that the centrality of the¶ state of
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it can always be provoked by terrorism to become itself¶ terroristic.’’35
Finally, state secrecy over indefinite detention magnifies the need for archaeological criticism. Don’t let our opposition fall into a textual black coffin. Framework is the symbolic equivalent of the physical violence exercised by the state to silence its captives. Vote aff to resist sovereign exceptionalism.
Pugliese 2013 Pugliese, Joseph Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at Macquarie University. State Violence and the Execution of Law: Biopolitcal Caesurae of Torture, Black Sites, Drones. 2013; Law and the PostcolonialBlackMagic
¶ The work that unfolds in the chapters that follow is inscribed by a constitutively
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the state cannot completely master its heterogeneous agents or silence its heteroglossic voices.

Tournament: UNLV | Round: 1 | Opponent: - | Judge: -
The attacks on the World Trade Center revealed the fear that America has of femininity,  and Its entrenchment in the phallic economy—the phallic symbol of the towers was cut off and was left was a smoldering vagina.
Faludi 7 Susan Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, feminist, and author, Harvard Graduate, fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The Terror Dream Fear and Fantasy in Post-911 America. Pg 1-296. {Shoell}

Our post-9/11 "sleeper cell" fears also seemed to find
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feminine¶ materialistic principle, and it is at its extreme in America."

And America turned its fear of femininity into protective policies that revert to fifties-style myths deployed to keep anxiety buried.
Faludi 7 Susan Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, feminist, and author, Harvard Graduate, fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The Terror Dream Fear and Fantasy in Post-911 America. Pg 1-296. {Shoell}

IN T H E Y E A R S since 2001, we've been on
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buried is one we've been constructing¶ for more than three hundred years.
This anxiety redomesticated femininity and recreated the masculinist war hawks who justify torture and civilian casualties as a focus on the victimization of women and children and the need to protect them.
Faludi 7 Susan Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, feminist, and author, Harvard Graduate, fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for  Advanced Study. The Terror Dream Fear and Fantasy in Post-911 America. Pg 1-296. {Shoell}

Allusions to Pearl Harbor provided no traction, and we soon turned¶ our attention
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homes," George W. Bush emphasized in his speech on the fifth.
And the national use of the widows of 9/11 valued those who continued the mythical story of masculine heroism. But once the perfect virgins of grief began to exhibit some independence they were branded with scarlet letters; moved from virginal to prostitutes. This entrenches phallocentrism.
Faludi 7 Susan Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, feminist, and author, Harvard Graduate, fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The Terror Dream Fear and Fantasy in Post-911 America. Pg 1-296. {Shoell}

Ultimately, the lavish attentions of the media left Beamer in an impossible¶ bind
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just not reality. Everybody¶ was just behaving like human beings."29

This phallocentrism reduces women to commodities and justifies atrocities.
Irigaray 85 Luce, this psychoanalyst who is not one.  This Sex Which Is Not One.¶ Translated By Catherine Porter.¶ With Carolyn Burke.¶ Cornell University Press.¶ Ithaca, New York. Pg 170-191. {Shoell}

As mother, woman remains on the side of (re)productive nature¶
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that they¶ function as components of private property, or as commodities.

the feminine body is where violence is performed. The aff is ontologically prior to any other impact.
Saigol 8¶ Rubina; “Militarization, Nation and Gender: Women’s Bodies as Arenas of Violent Conflict”Deconstructing Sexuality in the Middle East; p. 175

It is clear that wherever identity and self are threatened by an Other, an
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they will also become the major signifiers in economic struggles and market conflicts.

Phallocentrism is the root cause of the politics that create existential threats
Owens 93 Lara, author and activist, “Her Blood Is Gold” http://members.efn.org/~finnpo/indigenia/The20Return20of20the20Feminine20-20Owen.html

We live at a time of increasing awareness of the female, when feminine values
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own species, but also of many other species living on the planet.¶
Thus Hannah and I embrace an ethic of sexual difference as a rejection of the War on Terror as it sustains phallocentrism.
An ethics of sexual difference forms the basis for all encounters with Others. We must recognize that our sex means we can never complete ourselves as representative of humans, we can only encompass half of humanity at best.
Schwab 98 Gail, Senior Associate Dean for Curriculum and Personnel¶ Professor of Romance Languages and Literature, Hofstra University. Diacritics 28.1 Sexual Difference as Model: An Ethics for the Global Future. 76-92 {Shoell}

For Irigaray, the way out of the impasse is through the labor of the
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, and its activity plays out in the space between differently constituted subjects.

Our body politics come first—any other interpretation is an attempt to force submission and commodify women—critiquing the political economy is key to end phallocentrism.
Irigaray 85 Luce, this psychoanalyst who is not one.  This Sex Which Is Not One.¶ Translated By Catherine Porter.¶ With Carolyn Burke.¶ Cornell University Press.¶ Ithaca, New York. Pg 170-191. {Shoell}

This type of social system can be interpreted as the practical¶ realization of the
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to nature, matter, the¶ body, language, and desire.