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[Simon @simongsws]

While marriage may be a social construct that uplifts white patriarchy, inclusion in this institution is necessary for progress of a marginalized group. #familiesGSWSBC (5/5)

[Simon @simongsws]

Marriage as an institution has undergone several changes over the years but it has always been a way to exclude people. Race and gender have often been the determinants of whether two people could get married. Civil unions and #familiesGSWSBC (1/)

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registered partnerships were created for and used by queer people in place of marriage, because how could two people of the same gender get married. Gay marriage does not fit the idea of what marriage “should” be because it has long been held that simply being queer is (2/)

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It was interesting to see that even within the queer community, marriage is seen as a heteronormative concept, and partaking in that is conforming to an institution not made for queer people. (4/)

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abnormal. This makes me wonder if queer people will ever be brought under the umbrella of “normalcy”, even when acting within the timeline that that is considered to be normal and expected: birth, marriage, kids, death. (3/)

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thought about queer people having a different timeline from the prescribed “heteronormative” structure of birth, marriage, kids, & death. It made me wonder if my own timeline is different from my straight white peers&if they see it as being different. #spacetimeGSWSBC (5/5)

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Queer as a “way of life” threatens the norms of society, not only by the way of having sex, but rejection of heteronormativity. Queer time is often seen as being shorter and limited because of the way society sees and treats them. #spacetimeGSWSBC (1/)

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From the contraction of HIV/AIDS (particularly in the 80s) to simply existing in a homophobic space can diminish the time and space of queer people. Society says that queer time and space must be hidden from other sections of society. (2/)

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how urban areas became havens for “unnatural” and nonnormative ways of life. Similarly, the of boxing queer people into a spearate space promotes this idea of living separately because of the stark differences in the way they live.I had never (4/)

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It is defined by nightlife within urban areas and the idea that queer spaces do not exist outside of cities. This makes me think about the white flight from urban areas during the Great Migration of black people in the early 20th century and (3/)

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It’s easier on an individual level to participate in sexist and racist culture, but damaging for communities. To address an issue to become a problem - a killjoy. One is demonized if they push back against what has become the norm. (4/4) #feminismGSWSBC

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“Sometimes it might even seem that it is as or even more tiring to notice sexism and racism than to experience sexism and racism: after all, it is this noticing that makes things real.” (Ahmed 32). (¼) #feminismGSWSBC

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This struck me the most in this piece bc I can distinctly remember the first time I noticed that I was treated differently bc of my race & my thought process has never been the same. Acknowleding that you are treated differently bc of your race is often met with words like (2/4)

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“overreacting” or “they didnt mean it that way”. People on the receiving end of racism and sexism are made to feel like they cannot speak up against this and often push it to the side because it is seen as “damaging” to the person. (¾)

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It’s easy for society to undermine this 1%, but at what cost? (5/5) #asexualGSWSBC

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We have moved as a society from viewing sex as an act purely for reproduction to seeing it as something that everyone wants and needs (even if it is controlled and regulated for some). (1/5) #asexualGSWSBC

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There is this want by society for everyone to be the same and that means everyone having sexual desire. The portrayal of aces in media perpetuates the idea of asexual people having something wrong with them, being traumatized, or hiding their “true” sexuality. (⅘)

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This is connected to the erasure of minority history and figures like Pauli Murray, Christine Jorgensson, and Virginia Prince. History is framed by dominant society to portray what they want to, instead of what actually happened. (3/3) #transGSWSBC

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Trans is seen as this new concept despite the long history that they hold across generations and cultures. Of course we know that being queer or knowing that one’s “assigned” gender at birth is not true to who they are is not a new, modern thing. #transGSWSBC (⅓)

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But it was interesting to read in Stryker about trans people from the 17th and 18th centuries. It begs the question, why did people then, and people now, see being trans as unnatural, and disrupting the order of being. (⅔) #transGSWSBC