Shock and Yawn: Resisting Banal Terror Through Queer Storytelling

Shock and Yawn: Resisting Banal Terror Through Queer Storytelling - Paperback

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Shock and Yawn: Resisting Banal Terror Through Queer Storytelling - Paperback

Shock and Yawn: Resisting Banal Terror Through Queer Storytelling - Paperback

by Megan Sibbett
$59.31
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by Megan Sibbett (Author)

In Shock and Yawn, Megan Sibbett confronts state-sanctioned, mundane violence committed in the name of protection and argues that queer storytelling is an ideal avenue for recognizing, theorizing, and subverting it: Through queer stories, we have a direct window into the real-world ramifications of violence that purports to be for the public good. This violence, reinforced and normalized through surveillance campaigns, failure-to-protect laws, border policies, and government messaging, is obscured by both its banality and its benevolent veneer, in which children, or imagined children, are central to its logic of protection.

Building on queer theorists' critiques of intimate and administrative violence, especially Gloria Anzaldúa's "intimate terrorism," Sibbett develops methodologies for conceptualizing and subverting violence aimed at queer, racialized, and gendered bodies in this era of surveillance and increasing authoritarianism. Sibbett addresses book bans, anti-trans legislation, idealized histories of westward expansion, and more, examining materials that include public service announcements, advertising, social media, news reports, poems, interviews, and novels. In so doing, she demonstrates the crucial role queer testimonies-and queer histories and queer futures-play in revealing systemic violence and illuminating the transformative potential of everyday resistance.

Author Biography

Megan Sibbett is Assistant Professor in the Women's and Gender Studies Department at the University of Oklahoma. Her teaching and scholarly fields include queer and trans feminist theory, LGBTQ movements, and children's culture.

Number of Pages: 156
Dimensions: 0.36 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: March 23, 2026
ISBN9780814259795
Author Megan Sibbett
PublisherOhio State University Press
GenreEducation
FormatPaperback
PublishedMarch 2026
LanguageENG- English
Pages156
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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