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-"As an affirming personal identity, or worldview, queer takes many forms. One form is a personal refusal to adhere to, or identity with, static, essentialist categories such as woman/man, gay/straight, feminine/masculine, and more. Rather than adopt or appropriate these labls, a person might instead identify as queer. Identifying as queer, however, does not entail or suggest other identity categories "below the surface"; instead, queer serves as a decidedly ambiguous category. As an identity, queer is fluid, malleable, and transgresses boundaries as a way of establishing agency and unity. Queer refuses to be locked into any permanent state of identification. As a term, queer has mostly been engaged to describe those who transgress sex and gender categories, but many also appropriate queer as an identity for anyone who refuses normative ways of being and inacteracting in the world. In this way, queer-as-identity allows individuals to transcend or outright reject normative labels, or to carve out an identity that more accurately represents who they are and how they relate to others.
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+As an affirming personal identity, or worldview, queer takes many forms. One form is a personal refusal to adhere to, or identity with, static, essentialist categories such as woman/man, gay/straight, feminine/masculine, and more. Rather than adopt or appropriate these labls, a person might instead identify as queer. Identifying as queer, however, does not entail or suggest other identity categories "below the surface"; instead, queer serves as a decidedly ambiguous category. As an identity, queer is fluid, malleable, and transgresses boundaries as a way of establishing agency and unity. Queer refuses to be locked into any permanent state of identification. As a term, queer has mostly been engaged to describe those who transgress sex and gender categories, but many also appropriate queer as an identity for anyone who refuses normative ways of being and inacteracting in the world. In this way, queer-as-identity allows individuals to transcend or outright reject normative labels, or to carve out an identity that more accurately represents who they are and how they relate to others.
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