Queer youth suicide and the psychopolitics of "It Gets Better"
Queer youth suicide and the psychopolitics of "It Gets Better"
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DOI：
10.1177/1363460713516785
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发表时间：
2014-06-01
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1.5
通讯作者：
Mann, Emily S.
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Grzanka, Patrick R.;Mann, Emily S.
本文调查了自2010年9月以来，美国同性恋（或假定为同性恋）青年自杀率上升的大众介导运动。“它变得更好”（IGB）成为“反欺凌”活动家、政治家、名人和普通人的战斗口号，他们在YouTube上制作了针对可能考虑自杀的男同性恋、女同性恋、双性恋和变性（LGBT）青年的视频。对IGB视频样本的批评性话语分析揭示了一种新自由主义框架，这种框架将“更好”生活的负担置于LGBT青年的情感生活中，他们被指示为了不可避免的幸福而忍受痛苦。借鉴福柯和奥尔的工作建设和精神疾病的管理，我们使用的概念“心理力量”，以探讨这些IGB视频同性恋青年自杀既心理障碍和社会学危机，唯一可行的解决方案是“homonormative”的主体性。
This article investigates a mass-mediated campaign against a perceived increase in suicides among gay (or presumed-to-be-gay) youth in the USA since September 2010. "It Gets Better" (IGB) became a rallying cry for "anti-bullying" activists, politicians, celebrities and ordinary people who created YouTube videos addressed to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth who might be considering suicide. A critical discourse analysis of a sample of IGB videos reveals a neoliberal frame that places the burden of a "better" life onto the emotional lives of LGBT youth, who are instructed to endure suffering in the interest of inevitable happiness. Drawing on Foucault and Orr's work on the construction and management of mental illness, we use the concept of "psychopower" to explore how these IGB videos render queer youth suicide both a psychological disorder and a sociological crisis for which the only viable solution is "homonormative" subjectivity.