TY - JOUR
T1 - Interrogating “the end,” becoming “the end”
AU - LeMaster, Lore/tta
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 National Communication Association.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - For those of us for whom end times are marked by our arrivals, rhetorical threats of “the end” serve as discursive grounds out of which material experiences are animated. In our current hellscape, queer and trans folks are marked as cultural monstrosities across public and political discourses. Moved by the essays constituting this themed issue, I proffer a response by turning to the ways rhetorics of “the end” and of “end times” are projected onto queer and trans bodies. After all, to be trans and gender expansive is to be and become the end—the end of white supremacy’s clutch on sex, gender, and bodily comportment. This is an ending we demand in full.
AB - For those of us for whom end times are marked by our arrivals, rhetorical threats of “the end” serve as discursive grounds out of which material experiences are animated. In our current hellscape, queer and trans folks are marked as cultural monstrosities across public and political discourses. Moved by the essays constituting this themed issue, I proffer a response by turning to the ways rhetorics of “the end” and of “end times” are projected onto queer and trans bodies. After all, to be trans and gender expansive is to be and become the end—the end of white supremacy’s clutch on sex, gender, and bodily comportment. This is an ending we demand in full.
KW - American evangelical rhetorics
KW - end times
KW - monstrosity
KW - queer rhetorics
KW - trans rhetorics
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U2 - 10.1080/15358593.2022.2074800
DO - 10.1080/15358593.2022.2074800
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85131657127
SN - 1535-8593
VL - 22
SP - 153
EP - 156
JO - Review of Communication
JF - Review of Communication
IS - 2
ER -