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Shock and Yawn: Resisting Banal Terror Through Queer Storytelling

Shock and Yawn: Resisting Banal Terror Through Queer Storytelling

Sibbett, Megan

Paperback

CriminologyGeneral SociologyGLBTQIA Studies

ISBN10: 0814259790
ISBN13: 9780814259795
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: Mar 23 2026
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.36 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Shock and Yawn, Megan Sibbett confronts state-sanctioned, mundane violence committed in the name of protection and argues that queer storytelling is an ideal avenue for recognizing, theorizing, and subverting it: Through queer stories, we have a direct window into the real-world ramifications of violence that purports to be for the public good. This violence, reinforced and normalized through surveillance campaigns, failure-to-protect laws, border policies, and government messaging, is obscured by both its banality and its benevolent veneer, in which children, or imagined children, are central to its logic of protection.

Building on queer theorists' critiques of intimate and administrative violence, especially Gloria Anzaldúa's intimate terrorism, Sibbett develops methodologies for conceptualizing and subverting violence aimed at queer, racialized, and gendered bodies in this era of surveillance and increasing authoritarianism. Sibbett addresses book bans, anti-trans legislation, idealized histories of westward expansion, and more, examining materials that include public service announcements, advertising, social media, news reports, poems, interviews, and novels. In so doing, she demonstrates the crucial role queer testimonies--and queer histories and queer futures--play in revealing systemic violence and illuminating the transformative potential of everyday resistance.

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