In this short essay, I had a look at five concepts that are some aspects of the politics of sexuality, and I tried to incorporate them together in a short argumentative and critical text. From my point of view, all these five terminologies: Invention of Heterosexuality, Politics of Sexual Shame, Bivalent Conception of Justice, Politics of (Queer) Values, and Gender Panics, can be related to the process of recognition, and consequently, they have a mutual relationship/dialogue.

While normativity sits on the ‘throne’ and says: “tell me who you are if you deserve my respect? tell me what is your preferences if you want to be recognized?” if you want to be yourself, you should be out of yourself and encounter with the politics of shame. And this is a very fragile and vulnerable position, while normativity has a strong and stable chair; on the stage, in front of the whole world, and you don’t have a voice.  Normativity, hand in hand with moralizing, is a process of shaming others. Consequently, in the world of shaming and naming, shame becomes political and acts as a self-regulation tool. So, shame can be an innate feeling with an internalization process and a cultural weapon, and consequently economic one too, that can threaten people, but not those who sit on the throne of normativity, just the others who experience huge social and political consequences. In other words, our subjectivity becomes saturated with self-censorship and somehow unthinkable desires, a silent and dark hole that leads to shame.

Unthinkability of our desires can be hazardous while growing up in compulsory heterosexuality, and the world of expectation is heterosexual. So, it needed to be regulated. Therefore, the issue of recognition cannot be overlooked. Fraser (1995) states that in an institutional society, lack of recognition is big injustice and inability to participate in society because of the institutional framework of injustice. As a matter of fact, “misrecognition is an institutionalized social relation.” (Fraser,1995, p.141) and depending on social relation.

Recognition acts differently in characterizing injustice. We should review the idea of justice and recognition as an institutional issue. Based on that, all member of society has the opportunity for equal participation. It gives a possibility to participate in society, and it is not just a duty. Therefore, based on the bivalent conception of justice, she argues we have to recognize that all the social categories that order the society are bivalent. We need to articulate a new conception of justice which is called two-dimensional participatory justices. Fraser analyzes the hybrid nature of injustice and the social and economic roots of injustice (hence recognition and redistribution), which are present together in most socially relevant categories. Neither dimension (economic or cultural) is more original than the other.