Seeing Power, Seeing Colour: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Colorblindness Within Academic Understandings of BDSM

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dc.contributor.authorThon, Hannah
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-19T07:39:07Z
dc.date.available2023-03-19T07:39:07Z
dc.date.copyright2023en_US
dc.date.issued2023-03-19
dc.description.abstractIn my work, I use the practice of BDSM as a backdrop to critically assess academic understandings of race, specifically the dichotomy of whiteness and non-whiteness. BDSM is a practice that eroticizes power, and with this, power structures are purposefully and explicitly expressed - including those surrounding gender and race. In my engagement with this topic, I challenge how race is seen in relation to submissive and masochistic women within BDSM, specifically how the presence of colorblindness assumes (and hides) whiteness as the unmarked ‘standard’ for all identities. Performing a feminist critical discourse analysis on peer reviewed academic journal articles, I uncover strong themes of colorblindness as I question why race, particularly whiteness, is distinctly absent from most scholarship surrounding BDSM.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusRevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelUndergraduateen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipJamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Awards (JCURA)en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/14903
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectcolorblinden_US
dc.subjectwhitenessen_US
dc.subjectraceen_US
dc.subjectgenderen_US
dc.subjectsexualityen_US
dc.subjectBDSMen_US
dc.titleSeeing Power, Seeing Colour: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Colorblindness Within Academic Understandings of BDSMen_US
dc.typePosteren_US

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