{"id":211,"date":"2025-05-05T22:07:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T22:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rgsinpop.2025.cmoore.sites.carleton.edu\/?p=211"},"modified":"2025-05-05T22:07:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T22:07:37","slug":"jojo-siwa-on-celebrity-big-brother-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rgsinpop.2025.cmoore.sites.carleton.edu\/?p=211","title":{"rendered":"JoJo Siwa on ‘Celebrity Big Brother UK’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

JoJo Siwa has consistently been a point of conversation in queer spaces online, which is typical for the former child celebrity who has been a loud and proud lesbian. However, her recent controversy stems from disowning her previous lesbian identity in favor of identifying as queer. This shift followed her guest appearance on Celebrity Big Brother UK and her coupling with another star, Chris Hughes. The news came as a shock to many who admired her outspoken queerness. The controversy surrounding her new relationship and identification has affected many fans, particularly lesbians, who feel she has both disregarded lesbian identity and betrayed her partner \u2013 compounded by the fact that Hughes is significantly older.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This whole situation is complicated to unpack due to a multitude of factors, which must be approached with an intersectional lens. Many lesbians online have expressed feeling hurt and abandoned by JoJo\u2019s shift, as they once felt seen in her earlier claim of lesbianism. Yet, when considering Nash\u2019s Rethinking Intersectionality, we are reminded that intersectionality must travel as a theory of complexity. That is, there are many methodological ways to assess JoJo\u2019s changed identity: anti, intra, or intercategorical complexity (5). With anticategorical complexity, JoJo\u2019s change in identities could be seen as a simple rejection of all notions of categorization. For her, identifying as queer could dismiss the idea that once you claim a label, you must adhere to it. When analyzing this decision with intracategorical complexity, her identities as both a lesbian and queer would be critiqued to help find tensions within her lived experiences as both. This could show her unique hardships as a lesbian that might\u2019ve led to her to believe queer to be a better fit. Intercategorical complexity might zoom out and not just focus on her self-identification, but how sexuality interacts with other categories like age, race, and gender. With this method, JoJo dating an older man while moving from a lesbian to a queer identity raises questions about how gendered power dynamics might\u2019ve played into both her personal choices and the public\u2019s response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As a whole, this situation is messy and layered. Because of this, it\u2019s best to approach the situation while remembering the real lived experience JoJo has as a queer public figure. Intercategorical analysis seems to be the best methodology, in my opinion, as JoJo\u2019s race and socio-economic status play a large part in her identity shift. I\u2019m curious to see the long-term implications of her decision and how it might affect lesbian public figures in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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JoJo Siwa has consistently been a point of conversation in queer spaces online, which is typical for the former child celebrity who has been a loud and proud lesbian. However, her recent controversy stems from disowning her previous lesbian identity in favor of identifying as queer. This shift followed her guest appearance on Celebrity Big […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rgsinpop.2025.cmoore.sites.carleton.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rgsinpop.2025.cmoore.sites.carleton.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rgsinpop.2025.cmoore.sites.carleton.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rgsinpop.2025.cmoore.sites.carleton.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rgsinpop.2025.cmoore.sites.carleton.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rgsinpop.2025.cmoore.sites.carleton.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215,"href":"https:\/\/rgsinpop.2025.cmoore.sites.carleton.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rgsinpop.2025.cmoore.sites.carleton.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rgsinpop.2025.cmoore.sites.carleton.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rgsinpop.2025.cmoore.sites.carleton.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}