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QUEER (Definitions (Noun (Queerness): A concept or force that resists…
QUEER
Definitions
Noun (Queerness): A concept or force that resists structural bounds and binary oppositions, and creates space for the most marginalized groups.
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Adjective: A description or identity characterized by questioning structure, breaking binaries, and resisting heteronormative conceptions of "normality".
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Verb: To “queer” something means to look at it through a questioning, critical lense and attempt to question and deconstruct aspects of it.
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Intersectionality
Noun: A term coined by Kimberle Crenshaw, specifically centering black women, that explains the experiences of certain people who are part of more than one marginalized group. The multiple facets of a person’s identity overlap and inform each other, and forms of systematic discrimination also overlap.
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Stonewall
Noun: A gay bar that was the site of a historic uprising in Greenwich Village, New York. Today, the "Stonewall Riots" are considered the main event that sparked the contemporary Gay Rights movement.
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Social Construction
Gender Performativity
Noun: The way in which people present, express, or execute their gender through actions, decisions, and appearance (Lorber & Farrel, 1991).
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Heteronormativity
Noun: The assumption that heterosexuality and the binaries of male and female are the human default, and that sexuality, sex, gender, and gender expression all line up in a certain way. This assumption implies that anything that does not follow these categories is “abnormal”.
Example: Disney movies are largely oriented towards heteronormativity. The majority of Disney's animated movies feature a heterosexual couple.
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Noun: The process of creating social categories or rules in order to stratify and assign groups to different positions in a social system (Lorber & Farrell, 1991).
Example: European settlers imposed social constructions of gender binaries upon Indigenous people of North America. Some researchers refer to this as the "sexual colonization of Native peoples" (Morgensen, 2011).
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