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is a site of collective contestation which is, in the present, never fully owned, but always and only redeployed, twisted, queered from a prior usage and in the direction of urgent and expanding political purposes.

a site of collective contestation, the point of departure for a set of historical reflections and futural imaginings . . . that which is, in the present, never fully owned, but always and only redeployed, twisted, queered from a prior usage and in the direction of urgent and expanding political purposes' (228).

is a straying from the normal (rather than simply opposed to heterosexual). It is being outside and resisting the established norms and normal behavior.

Michael Warner defines queer as straying from the normal rather than simply opposed to heterosexual (xxvi). . . . .being outside and resisting the established norms and normal behavior.. . .

is the experimental, linguistic, epistemological, representational, political adventures attaching to the very many of us who may at times be moved to describe ourselves as pushy femmes, radical faeries, fatasist, drags, clones, leatherfolk, ladies in tuxedos, feminist women or feminist men, masturbators, bulldaggers, divas, snap! Queens, butch bottoms, story tellers, transsexuals, aunties, wannabes, lesbian-identified men or lesbians who sleep with men, or . . . People able to relish, learn from, 

The experimental, linguistic, epistemoloigcal, representational, political adventures attaching to the very many of us who may at times be moved to describe ourselves as (among many other possibilities) pushy femmes, radical faeries, fatasist, drags, clones, leatherfolk, ladies in tuxedos, feminist women or feminist men, masturbators, bulldaggers, divas, Snap! Queens, butch bottoms, story tellers, transsexuals, aunties, wannabes, lesbian-identified men or lesbians who sleep with men, or . . . people able to relish, learn from, or identify with such

is the open mesh of possibilities, gaps, overlaps, dissonances and resonances, lapses and excesses of meaning when the constituent elements of anyone's gender, of anyone's sexuality aren't made (or can't be made) to signifying monolitically.

the open mesh of possibilities, gaps, overlaps, dissonances and resonances, lapses and excesses of meaning when the constituent elements of anyone's gender, of anyone's sexuality aren't made (or can't be made) to signifying monolitically . . .The experimental, linguistic, epistemoloigcal, representational, political adventures attaching to the very many of us who may at times be moved to describe ourselves as (among many other possibilities) pushy femmes, radical faeries, fatasist, drags, clones, leatherfolk, ladies in tuxedos, feminist women or feminist men, masturbators, bulldaggers, divas, Snap! Queens, butch bottoms, story tellers, transsexuals, aunties, wannabes, lesbian-identified men or lesbians who sleep with men, or . . . people able to relish, learn from, or identify with such (p. xxvi). (Fear of the Queer Planet)

is those gestures or analytic models which dramatize incoherencies in the allegedly stable relations between chromosomal sex, gender and sexual desire.

those gestures or analytic models which dramatise incoherencies in the allegedly stable relations between chromosomal sex, gender and sexual desire'. 7 (Annamarie Jagose, Queer Theory, (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1996), p. 3.)

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