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The Origin of Queer Theory: Gayle Rubin's "Thinking Sex"

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The Politics of Resistance

The essay was written around the same time as another by a post-colonialist, Gayatri Spivak. " strategic essentialism" is where you take on characteristics of stereotype and use it as weapon back at people," she says. The Democrats said before the election in 2020 that black people didn't use computers to get ID or vote for something like that.

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