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The American Library Association is Queering the Catalog
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The Unification of All
The library is linguistically controlled, corralled in classification structures that fix items in place. They're fixed where they're just like queers, right? Some people are straight. Some people are gay. That's really the first observation from Foucault within queer theory. And what does that even mean? And let's break it down and deconstruct it. So now we have 3,000 genders, 3,000 sexualities,. 850 million flags, Microsoft making a blend of all of them. I mean, it's absurd to try to break down the classification structures that are both necessary and evil at the same time.
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