Tournament: Districts | Round: 3 | Opponent: Puget Sound BQ | Judge: Kuswa

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Queer identity politics fails. Sexual identity is comprised of intersecting variables such as act, position, accessories, and setting. These variables are constructions of fetishization and desire and are too complex to categorize using political typology. Rather, the bare-backer motto, "No Limits21" provides a more inclusive view of sexual difference.

DEAN 9 (TIM is Director of the Humanities Institute at the University of Bu? alo (SUNY), where he is also a professor of English. He is the author of Beyond Sexuality and editor of Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis, both published by the University of Chicago Press. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637, "UNLIMITED INTIMACY REFLECTIONS ON THE SUBCULTURE OF BAREBACKING" https://skydrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=62151A4C925F367D211152726ithint=file2c.pdf26app=WordPdf26wdo=226authkey=21AA6p8qc-Nx69E8A, KMH)
If erotic desire does not originate in sexual di?erence, then there is no reason
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any sexual act and likewise exhibits the virtue of confounding sexual identity categories.

Specifically, their construction of AIDS as a government engineered bioweapon runs opposite the underground barebacking cultures reclamation of the AIDS virus as a form of sexual liberation.

Dean 09(Tim Dean is a British philosopher and writer, notable in the
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INTIMACY REFLECTIONS ON THE SUBCULTURE OF BAREBACKING", 48-49, SIN)
Although devoid of four-letter words (unless you count "Dick"), these
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tend to provide the focus of any scene in which he appears.4

That turns the case – underground sexual agents bareback and use AIDS as a tool to fight against the violence of heteronormativity.

Dean 09(Tim Dean is a British philosopher and writer, notable in the
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"UNLIMITED INTIMACY REFLECTIONS ON THE SUBCULTURE OF BAREBACKING", 2, SIN)
Typically the emergence of bareback subculture has been viewed as a case of pathological self
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should be regarded as blameworthy or otherwise before the subculture has been explored.

The alternative is to vote negative to endorse barebacking.

The alternative allows barebackers to use their bodies as tools to challenge the power structures which label them as degenerates and is the best internal link to achieving self-actualization.

Dean 09 (Tim Dean is a British philosopher and writer, notable in the
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INTIMACY REFLECTIONS ON THE SUBCULTURE OF BAREBACKING", 20-21, SIN)
Here I’m trying to redescribe Warner’s critique in psychoanalytic terms be- cause I think
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to reprise some psychoanalytic ideas about identification and its surability with sexuality.34

Tournament: Texas Open | Round: 2 | Opponent: Kansas State KM | Judge: Ortiz, Katie

1NC

Society is haunted by the death drive – a drive towards nonexistence and death.  The necessity of political intervention to save us from impending doom  and fear of death is a fantasy of self-fulfillment that denies the existence of the death drive and projects anxiety onto queer bodies who are deemed futureless.

Giffney 08 (Noreen, Professor of Queer Theory at University College of Dublin, Queering the Non/Human, p. 65-7)
For Edelman, reproductive futurism presents ’an always impossible future’ (11), ’
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the mere mechanisms in motion’ (69). mechanisms in motion’ (69). 

Queers, which include homosexuals, and other deviants, are considered futureless; they are a group of sexual nihilists who stand in the way of securing a bright and hopeful future.  Death becomes intimately tied to queerness while life becomes identified with heterosexuality.  War Power Policy takes the bait of futurity by defining who is good enough to restrict war power policy.  This accommodation ensures that the structure of heteronormativity stays in place, requiring the maintenance of other queer and stigmatized people.

Schotten 09 (C. Heike, Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Boston, Nietzsche’s Revolution: Decadence, Politics, and Sexuality, p. 202-3)
What I wonder, instead, is if Lee Edelman offers us one possible way
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population, an illustration that bolster’s Edelman’s argument rather than undermines it."’ 

Predictions and risk analysis in debate is not accurate forecasting.  Rather, it’s a way to imagine and harness the uncertain future, allowing imagined scenarios to call the shots of the present.

De Goede 08 (Marieke, Department of European Studies, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. "Beyond Risk: Premediation and the Post-9/11 Security Imagination" Security Dialogue Vol. 39, no. 2-3, April)
Premediation is a promising term to denote the discursive economies through which terrorist futures are
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how of the coming havoc. We can only speculate’ (emphasis added). 

Futurism necessitates violence.  The queer must be exterminated in order to achieve harmony.

Stavrakakis 99 (Yannis, Lacanian Psychoanalyst, Lacan and the Political, p. 99-101, Questia)
Our age is clearly an age of social fragmentation, political disenchantment and open cynicism
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functioning society as a highly problematic area (seminar of 18 June 1958).

Life becomes a hollow shell under futurism as it is only important in terms of its place in the future.

Edelman 04 (Lee, Prof @ Tuffman University, No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive, P. 47-9)
The death drive as which the.queer figures, then, refuses the calcification
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else in the world, by force if needed, must give way?

The social order will always project images of potential suffering and violence which necessitate positive actions to avoid catastrophes.  Our foremost ethical duty is to challenge this forced choice: to take make the impossible decision and say yes to all their threats.

Edelman 04 (Lee, Prof @ Tuffman University, No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive, P. 108-9)
On the face of Mount Rushmore, as he faces the void to which he
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which everything "human," to have one, must turn its face. 

The alternative is to vote negative.  This is not mere word play – we are at war with the entire system that makes their aff meaningful.   Use the ballot to identify with death, queerness, and negativity in the face of a politics that is only valuable through some reconciled, future order.  Aligning oneself with negativity is the only way to reclaim life from constant deferral to the future.

Schotten 09 (C. Heike, Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Boston, Nietzsche’s Revolution: Decadence, Politics, and Sexuality, p. 203-6)
Instead of falling prey to the logic of the Child, however, and its
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he knew the choice was a setup—like all dichotomies, false.

Tournament: Districts | Round: 2 | Opponent: Wyoming BC | Judge: James Stevenson
The argument we make is that borderlands are bad but we don't make that argument through normative understandings of debate. We say that the borderlands creates epistemic violence and an internalization of war for those trapped within the borderlands that have two different identities/modes of consciousness. The 1NC is comprised of our personal experience as first generation immigrant students and we apply that to the context of both debate and the affirmative. We still utilize argumentation that comes from re-search but it is presented in an pedagogically academic style re-appropriates the use of carded arguments to a usage of arguments proper.

Tournament: Texas Open | Round: 5 | Opponent: Houston AB | Judge: Koch, John

Weapons PIC

The United States Congress should restrict the authority of the President of the United States to introduce nuclear explosive devices first into hostilities.

A) The term "weapons" identifies a tool intended to be used in combat, the Aff’s use of this term obscures the reality of nuclear forces and makes their use more likely

Gates in 2001
(John M., Aileen Dunham Professor of History, Emeritus, The U.S. Army and Irregular Warfare, "Chapter 11: The Continuing Problem of Conceptual Warfare", http://www3.wooster.edu/history/jgates/book-ch11.html)
Over time, something even worse happened to the language. A trend began toward
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for weapons, by definition, are instruments intended for use in combat. 

B) Breaking from prenuclear terminology to frame nuclear discourse is critical to escape our linguistic prison and stave off complete annihilation from conceptual confusion

Gates in 2001
(John M., Aileen Dunham Professor of History, Emeritus, The U.S. Army and Irregular Warfare, "Chapter 11: The Continuing Problem of Conceptual Warfare", http://www3.wooster.edu/history/jgates/book-ch11.html)
To solve the frightening problem of the nuclear threat, people need terms that they
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necessary first step toward the development of an intellectual system to avoid disaster.