Affiliation:
1. University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Abstract
Abstract
Wolof ethics of sutura “discretion” have historically conflated perceived communicative excess
with bodily contagion and associated both with queer subjects. For health non-governmental organizations (NGOs), online dating
among gay Senegalese men presents two risks to sutura: contagious sex and contagious discourse. A Senegalese
eHealth NGO hires gay men to send HIV/AIDS prevention messages through Facebook and online dating websites in order to contain
HIV and, invoking sutura, contain queer communication and bodies. This NGO projects a heteronormative
metapragmatic model of health communication, casting information as instrument of containment, and a unitary, de-eroticized
digital self as informational messenger. In what I call queer biocommunicability, eHealth activists create erotically seductive
digital personae incongruous with offline characteristics. Construed as communicative-bodily excess, digital seductions actually
facilitate information exchange. NGOs instrumentalize queer biocommunicability to bolster a care framework that marginalizes queer
subjects. This paper traces historical underpinnings and ethical-political implications of heteronormative biocommunicability’s
dependence on queer transgression.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Anthropology,Language and Linguistics,Gender Studies
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