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  2. Queer theory - Wikipedia

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    Queer theory is the lens used to explore and challenge how scholars, activists, artistic texts, and the media perpetrate gender- and sex-based binaries, and its goal is to undo hierarchies and fight against social inequalities. [30]

  3. Neuroqueer theory - Wikipedia

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    Neuroqueer theory is a framework that intersects the fields of neurodiversity and queer theory. [1] It examines the ways society constructs and defines normalcy, particularly concerning gender, sexual orientation, and dis/ability, and challenges those constructions. [ 2 ]

  4. Gayle Rubin - Wikipedia

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    Gayle S. Rubin (born January 1, 1949) is an American cultural anthropologist, theorist and activist, best known for her pioneering work in feminist theory and queer studies. Her essay "The Traffic in Women" (1975) had a lasting influence in second-wave feminism and early gender studies , by arguing that gender oppression could not be adequately ...

  5. Homonormativity - Wikipedia

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    Homonormativity is the adoption of heteronormative ideals and constructs onto LGBT culture and identity. [1] [2] [3] It is predicated on the assumption that the norms and values of heterosexuality should be replicated and performed among homosexual people. [1]

  6. Michael Warner - Wikipedia

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    In The Trouble With Normal, Warner critiques same-sex marriage activism and other moves more generally by the gay rights movement toward equality in normalcy.The book has been described as a classic of the debates on normalcy as a goal for the gay rights movement, and as an important contribution to queer theory. [5]

  7. Quare theory - Wikipedia

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    Quare theory was created to promote the voices of queer people of color. Quare theory is similar to queer theory; they are both forms of critical theory that focus on the study and theories of queer identities and actions. [1] E. Patrick Johnson believed that within queer theory there was an erasure or minimization of queer people of color's ...

  8. Queer - Wikipedia

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    Organizations such as the Irish Queer Archive attempt to collect and preserve history related to queer studies. Queer theory is a field of post-structuralist critical theory that emerged in the early 1990s out of the fields of queer studies and women's studies. Applications of queer theory include queer theology and queer pedagogy.

  9. Queering - Wikipedia

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    Queering (also called queer reading [1]) is a technique used to challenge heteronormativity by analyzing places in a text that use heterosexuality or identity binaries. [2] [3] Coming out of queer theory in the late 1980s through the 1990s, [4] queering is a method that can be applied to literature, film, and other media.