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...people. It helps us define ourselves at a time when minority groups—fags, dykes, queers—are often defined, whether we like it or not, by others. The proliferation of terms in the queer rights movement—especially “queer?? itself—is due, in part, to a reclamation of the words that proceed or accompany fear and physical violence. Moving beyond these imposed terms, we invent new words like homophobia and heterosexism because these inventions prove more accurate, useful tools in an ongoing battle for fairness and recognition, maybe...
...creation of new genders has become a hobby for those on the fringe. Consider Kit Yan, a “gender queer?? Hawaiian poet who will be performing tonight at BGLTSA’s invitation. In one poem, after rolling through several dozen “genders”—including appellations like “polyamorous,” “heteroflexible,” and “boydyke”—Yan solemnly declares, “and that’s just the beginning...There may be as many...
...anything but ignorant. This lexicon of alienation can take many forms. For one thing, the academy simply doesn’t speak the same language as most Americans, for whom “gender” glosses as “biological sex” and “queer?? isn’t a word to throw around in polite company. But the stronger trap lies in the temptation to apply unsubstantiated categories. Dismissing the statements of relatives and friends as “homophobic,” even if they are, deprives students of the opportunity...
...journal’s editors say its title has caused some controversy, but that they chose the word “queer?? as part of an effort to reclaim what had long been a derogatory term...
This leads to great coming-home stories. A fellow Montanan, returning home from an Ivy League school, dropped the newly-reclaimed word “queer?? at the family dinner table only to be stared back at with doe-eyed gawks. Perhaps this is Harvard’s curious way of preparing naive bumpkins for ideological persuasion on provincial battle fronts. But it’s peculiar that while BGLTSA unflinchingly welcomes a group called the “Lesbian Avengers”—I’m not sure what they’re here...