ABSTRACT This article interrogates how queerness, as signified by the queer child, operates in a contemporary US culture jointly defined by homonationalism and #MeToo. Using the queer child as its fulcrum, it argues that part of what sustains the pervasive failure to hold privileged individuals accountable for their sexual abuses is an exceptionalist discourse which only locates childhood desire, and child abuse, elsewhere. It establishes this by analysing a 2015 article and documentary by the New York Times about a young American woman, represented as a child, who was radicalised by the flirtatious seduction of online recruiters from Daesh. The analysis undertakes a queer reading of the flirtations and touches within the documentary, attending to its visualisations of seduction, embrace, and desire. Unpacking the sexual touch of the racialised discourses of so-called grooming, it opens up new ways of understanding the relationship between childhood sexuality, sexual abuse, and contemporary sexual politics.

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“与伊斯兰国家调情”：酷儿时代与现代性政治的联系

摘要本文探讨了酷儿（由酷儿表示）在如何由同民族主义和#MeToo共同定义的当代美国文化中的运作。它以酷儿为支点，认为维持普遍失败以使有特权的个人对他们的性虐待负责的部分原因是一种例外论话，它只在其他地方找到了童年的欲望和虐待儿童的情况。它通过分析《纽约时报》在2015年发表的一篇文章和纪录片来证明这一点，该文章和纪录片讲述了一个年轻的美国女性，她还是一个孩子，她被Daesh的诱人诱骗在线招聘者激化了。该分析对纪录片中的调情和风格进行了奇怪的阅读，并着眼于诱惑，拥抱和欲望的可视化。