Performing Heteronormativity: The Discourse of the College Hook up Culture and Sexuality Ziya Toprak, Boğaziçi University ziya.toprak@boun.edu.tr Abstract This paper focuses on the college hook up culture and slut discourse. I analyze the documentary feature ‘‘Spitting Game: The College Hook Up Culture’’ that present a provocative sense of the hook up culture. Drawing from the narratives of students presented in the documentary, I argue that the college hook up culture is bounded with heteronormativity, where participants of the culture are performing gender positions available to them. I claim that the culture privileges masculinity and necessitates heteronormal performances in order for students to participate. Often ignored by the discourse of campus crime, I argue that women are true victims and they take up sexual performances only with great difficulty as articulated with slut discourse. Keywords: College Hook Up Culture, Slut Discourse, Heteronormativity, Performance, Spitting Game New articles in this journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 United States License. This journal is published by the University Library System of the University of Pittsburgh as part of its D-Scribe Digital Publishing Program and is cosponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Press Volume 8.1 (2020) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2020.240 | http://cinej.pitt.edu