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Which box do I check?

Am I Normal? with Mona Chalabi

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Queer Theory and the Pursuit of Knowledge

Glamr celebrates the farce of trying to fit into the invented categories of woman and arab. She pushes at the limits of their definition. Performative categories are just flashy approximations of reality that serve a functional purpose. They are not reality itself. More than getting the right categories, it's important that we're open to our categories being adaptable.

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