Blog Prompt #6: Fire, Queer Diaspora, & the Difficult Politics of Visibility

By 9 pm on Tuesday June 29th, please post a 600-word response to one or both (whichever you prefer) of the following prompts:

1. In "Local Sites/Global Contexts: The Transnational Trajectories of Deepa Mehta's Fire," Gayatri Gopinath challenges the frame that constructs queerness and diaspora as "inauthentic," "impure," or radically distinct from heterosexuality and Indian nationalism. What does she mean by a "queer diasporic positionality" (150), and can it be used to critically analyze Deepa Mehta's Fire?

2. Gopinath argues that Fire challenges Euro-American visibility politics for its complicity in colonialism and racist visualities (155). What connections do you find between the ways that Fire does this (if, in fact, you think that it does) and the ways that Monica Enríquez-Enríquez's Fragments of Migration or Asilo Queer does this?

Remember to link to or embed a minimum of 1 image, video, website, blog, or other visual cultural production that you see relating to this week's blog prompt and course topics.