{"id":1382,"date":"2024-04-16T17:28:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T17:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/?p=1382"},"modified":"2026-07-15T10:01:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T14:01:48","slug":"insult-and-the-making-of-the-gay-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/insult-and-the-making-of-the-gay-self\/","title":{"rendered":"Insult and the Making of the Gay Self"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"ee-big-quote wp-block-paragraph\">&ldquo;There is a kind of energy born out of shame, formed by and in it, that can act as a force for transformation. This energy finds its expression in a theatricalized identity, in performance, in a love of display or extravagance, in parody. Self-display and theatricality are and have been among the most important means of defying heteronormative hegemony\u2014and this is why they have always been the objects of such virulent attacks.&rdquo;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/69310.Didier_Eribon\"><\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Didier Eribon (translated by Michael Lucey)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1383,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1302,100,1303],"class_list":["post-1382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book","tag-didier-eribon","tag-lgbtqia","tag-michael-lucey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1384,"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions\/1384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}