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What the fuck? Surviving fantasies of sexual violence in the professoriate

What the fuck? Sobreviviendo las fantasías de violencia sexual en el profesorado

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K. S. León (2021) has proposed the need to “unfuck” criminology’s colonial investments via the possibilities offered by Latino criminology. However, to “‘unfuck’ criminology’s colonial inheritances,” we introduce three intervening premises: sexual politics are central to the uses and understandings of “fuck,” sexual violence is central to colonialism, and colonialism is central to academic governance. We argue that Latina/o/x criminologies’ calls for decolonization must contend with sexual governance as a cohering feature of Western institutions’ colonial foundations, and that the academy is one such institution. In other words, we assert that contending with sexual violence is a mandate for academics in fields that grapple with colonial violence—like Latinx criminology—to disrupt the structures and practices that enable sexual violence as a regular feature of academic discipline, exclusion, and punishment. We build with Latinx/a/o studies scholarship to challenge three harmful fantasies upheld in mainstream criminology: (1) academic work is distinct from sex work; (2) criminologists do not enact or experience sexual violence; and (3) due process can protect us from sexual violence.

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K. S. León (2021) propone la necesidad de eliminar la violencia sexual (“unfuck") de las inversiones coloniales en la criminología utilizando las posibilidades que ofrece la criminología latina. Sin embargo, para poder “unfuck” la herencia colonial de la criminología, presentamos tres premisas intervinientes: la política sexual es medular a los usos y entendimientos de “fuck”, la violencia sexual es medular al colonialismo, y el colonialismo es modular a la gobernanza académica. Argumentamos que las llamadas a la descolonización de la criminología latina tienen que lidiar con la gobernanza sexual como característica inherente a las bases coloniales de las instituciones del occidente, y que la academia es una de esas instituciones. En otras palabras, afirmamos que confrontar la violencia sexual es un mandato para la academia en los campos que deben lidiar con la violencia colonial (como lo es la criminología latina) a fin de alterar las estructuras y prácticas que posibilitan la violencia sexual como característica regular de la disciplina, la exclusión y el castigo en la academia. Partimos de trabajos académicos en los estudios latinos para desafiar tres fantasías nocivas que sostiene la criminología dominante: (1) el trabajo académico es distinto al trabajo sexual; (2) los/las criminólogos/as no efectúan ni experimentan violencia sexual y (3) el debido proceso legal puede protegernos de la violencia sexual.

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Notes

  1. As three untenured cisgender women of color scholars, we realize that our invocation of the explicative “fuck” in a peer-reviewed article may elicit some measure of pearl-clutching and discomfort among certain readers; we have been duly cautioned against an approach that labels this article—and us, as a result—“abrasive” and lacking “respectability.” We accept that we risk making our readers uncomfortable. Yet, it is precisely this tension that we seek to evoke. This asymmetry—that our use of “fuck” to name how sexual violence unfolds in the academy may be interpreted as more offensive, distasteful, and disrespectful than sexual violence itself—betrays how academics normalize harm by prioritizing and policing tone over engaging substance. We know that bowing to academia’s impulse for a respectable aesthetic will not save us from being sexually violated or from losing our jobs. But we hope that articulating how sexual violence occurs in the professoriate and what makes it possible will perhaps provide others who are violated with some language to name what happened to them, and maybe even serve as an intervention of sorts for those who engage in sexually violating behavior. We are, in other words, simultaneously questioning what the fuck is happening in academia to make sexual violence a normalized hazard of working in the professoriate, and also asking our readers, what the fuck are we going to do about it? And if you give zero fucks about engaging these questions, then we also are pressed to ask you: what the fuck? We also are not the first to use “fuck” in our article title to think through the conditions of sexual violence. See, for instance, Helen Wood’s (2019) “Fuck the Patriarchy: Towards an Intersectional Politics of Irreverent Rage.” However, people of color—particularly those who are marginalized at the intersections of sex and gender—are subject to a different intensity of respectability politics, which white academics are largely spared. Crystal Fleming’s (2018) chapter “No Fucks to Give: Dismantling the Respectability Politics of White Supremacist Sociology,” in the edited volume The New Black Sociologists, addresses some of these dynamics within the discipline of sociology.

  2. We operationalize “sexual violence” expansively here—inclusive of harassment, intimidation, assault, and policing—to name the range of ideological, symbolic, and embodied violence that is imposed on bodies that are deemed marginal or expendable. While we recognize that distinctions between physical assaults and verbal intimidation exist, we refuse criminology’s traditional hierarchies of sexual violence that seek to evaluate the degree of punishment appropriate to particular forms of harm. Drawing from Rana M. Jaleel’s (2021) argument in The Work of Rape, we remain cognizant that terms like “rape” and “sexual harassment” are unstable, socially constructed categories deeply shaped by Western imperialism and the legal structures born from empire, and that the flattening of sexual violence to singular, context-devoid terms has particularly served Anglo-American agendas in Latin America. We therefore broadly consider sexual violence as the conditions that impede and violate sexual sovereignty and self-determination, especially as it emerges from the long historical continuities of empire, settler colonialism, and racial-chattel slavery.

  3. We use these terms interchangeably with “Latinx,” both as a reflection of the call for papers, with the additional inclusion of “Latine,” and to recognize the plurality and movement of terms folks use to self-identify over time.

  4. We invoke “fuck” as a term that can mean all kinds of things, including grappling with (fucking with); conditions that are unjust (fucked up); to be cheated, screwed, or duped (fucked with or over); defiance (fuck that); cathartic expletive (fuck!); conscious characterization of a sexual relationship between consenting people (fucking); affirmation and affinity (I fuck with you); and as an embrace of enthusiastic—and erotic—affirmation (fuck yes). We meditate on how these multiple, related meanings of fuck—as a curse word oppositional to civilized academic space, but also an expression of rage or frustration (FUCK)—reveal how academics advance and experience sexual violence as a racial-colonial condition of belonging.

  5. Those who have worked waiting tables, bartending, or otherwise participated in the service industry also have witnessed and/or experienced such patriarchal bargains.

  6. For an example, see Brostrom and Tierney’s (2014) “Robinson/Edley Report: Twelve-Month Implementation Report.”

  7. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YQC9I50KdrsK3tt5cQrWFIPossizQisDCisO57Bhoac/edit

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As equal authors of this article, we offer gratitude to the special issue editors, journal editors, anonymous reviewers, and many generous colleagues who have directly and indirectly contributed to this article. In the spirit of this work, we treat this article as an incomplete project, recognizing that there are oversights that we are unaware of, not least of all because there are so many incredible, illuminating works on sexual violence and the academy that have been published since we wrote this piece in 2021. We know these silences and gaps reify the very forms of violence we bring to light in this work. We also know it is likely some of those we cite have committed the very kinds of harms that we name. So, our true acknowledgement and gratitude goes towards those who have and are experiencing sexual harm in the academy and beyond. You deserve so much more.

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