{"id":234,"date":"2022-09-16T15:32:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T15:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/queerreading\/?p=234"},"modified":"2022-09-16T15:32:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T15:32:20","slug":"journal-entry-2-emily-zhang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/queerreading\/journal-entry-2-emily-zhang\/","title":{"rendered":"Journal Entry 2- Emily Zhang"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From Jos\u00e9 Esteban Mu\u00f1oz\u2019s Disidentifications<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Identification, then, as Sedgwick explains, is never a simple project. Identifying with an object, person, lifestyle, history, political ideology, religious orientation, and so on, means also simultaneously and partially counteridentifying, as well as only partially identifying with different aspects of the social and psychic world.\u00a0<\/p>

Although the various processes of identification are fraught, those subjects who are hailed by more than one minority identity component have an especially arduous time of it. Subjects who are outside the purview of dominant public spheres encounter obstacles in enacting identifications. Minority identifications are often neglectful or antagonistic to other minoritarian positionalities. This is as true of different theoretical paradigms as it is of everyday ideologies” (p. 8)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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In this passage Mu\u00f1oz expresses the idea that individuals that belong to or can identify with multiple minority groups have a particularly difficult time discovering their identity or identifying themselves. Mu\u00f1oz\u2019s word choice, describing identification as not \u201ca simple project\u201d involving \u201cvarious processes\u201d in \u201cenacting\u201d it, complements this message by creating the sense that identification is not just a simple assigning or choosing of a label; instead, it is created by an individual through a multifaceted journey which requires work or effort to build and establish. Mu\u00f1oz ascribes the difficulty of this process to the fact that identification with one group implies counteridentification with another, a complexity that is then further compounded by neglect or antagonism between different minority identifications. However, in his use of the word \u201chailed,\u201d Mu\u00f1oz indicates that individuals also cannot just ignore different aspects of their being for the sake of simplicity; rather, they experience a calling or pull towards each of their different identities and are thus pushed to juggle all of them in finding their complete identity. Altogether, such a description means that for a potential audience who is within \u201cthe purview of dominant public spheres,\u201d Mu\u00f1oz illuminates and encourages recognition of a struggle that they do not need to face and otherwise may have been unable to comprehend. However, Mu\u00f1oz also serves an audience who can relate to this issue by validating their struggle, capturing the legitimate, convoluted reality which inherently frustrates their efforts.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Key: Identification is a process that requires effort as identifying with one group simultaneously implies counteridentifying with another. Identifying with any minority group may already be inherently difficult as it falls beyond the \u201cdominant public spheres\u201d which are more likely to be socially-accepted, but because minority identities in particular are often neglectful or antagonistic towards each other, it becomes even more difficult to find the necessary compromise in building one\u2019s identity, for an individual may find that identifying with one group places them in a difficult, contradictory position if that group\u2019s norms oppose another minority position that the individual is also connected to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lock: Mu\u00f1oz specifically states that identifying with a group means \u201cpartially counteridentifying\u201d along with \u201cpartially identifying with different aspects of the social and psychic world.\u201d I\u2019m not sure I completely understand what Mu\u00f1oz means when he says \u201cpartially.\u201d Is he suggesting that the traditional nature of identity groups is that they\u2019re discrete, so an individual can only partially identify with a group at most? Or, does he mean that identity groups are overlapping, so in identifying with one group, an individual not only counteridentifies with another, but also inherently identifies with another group to some degree? Additionally, I\u2019m not sure what he means when he refers to the \u201cpsychic world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Jos\u00e9 Esteban Mu\u00f1oz\u2019s Disidentifications: Identification, then, as Sedgwick explains, is never a simple project. Identifying with an object, person, lifestyle, history, political ideology, religious orientation, and so on, means also simultaneously and partially counteridentifying, as well as only partially identifying with different aspects of the social and psychic world.\u00a0 Although the various processes of… Continue reading Journal Entry 2- Emily Zhang<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6910,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/queerreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/queerreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/queerreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/queerreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6910"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/queerreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/queerreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/queerreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/queerreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/queerreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/queerreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}