IGNORE LAST POST new secondary source

Sorry for the mix up but I found a source I like even better than the last one.  It's called "Alien Bodies and a Queer Future: Sexual Revision in Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild” and James Tiptree, Jr.’s “With Delicate Mad Hands” by Amanda Thibodeau.  This is a really great source for me personally because it first elaborates on the idea of sci-fi as having parallels to queer theory and illustrating new Dystopian or Utopian societies that provoke questions on sexual norms. Many of these ideas are almost identical to one of our earlier readings, "Queer Universes," which is no surprise since said article is referenced numerous times by Thibodeah.  Then, the article moves to Bloodchild, first claiming that it challenges "the idea that the future (and thus utopia) relies on heteroproductivity; rather, utopia can demonstrate a rejection of present constructions for a future vision."  It later moves onto the issues of gender roles, power, and social pressures, all of which are very crucial to my argument.  Thibodeau goes over the multiple ways in which Gan and T'Gatoi's relationship is a reversal of sexes and how Bloodchild as a whole undermines heteronormativity in more than just the gender swap.  The article continues to dissect the different themes and claims of significance present in the story, mainly in the portrayal of the Tlics and the scene in which Gan threatens to kill himself in front of T'Gatoi, most of which are all related to my thesis fortunately.  The one variation between my thesis and this article is that Thibodeau focuses on what Bloochild says about heteronormativity, which is similar to what I'm discussing, but it does suggest that Butler is necessarily critiquing society in her story.  That said, I think one could interpret this article in that way, which is good because that helps me a lot.