Comments on: http://essin-em.com Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:32:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Sexuality Happens » Labels, identities, and asking http://essin-em.com/nofauxxx-giveaway/comment-page-1/#comment-5187 Sexuality Happens » Labels, identities, and asking Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:04:26 +0000 http://essin-em.com/?page_id=1709#comment-5187 [...] NoFauxxx [...] [...] NoFauxxx [...]

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]]> By: Thom Blakley http://essin-em.com/nofauxxx-giveaway/comment-page-1/#comment-4867 Thom Blakley Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:25:04 +0000 http://essin-em.com/?page_id=1709#comment-4867 Queer is a word, with great impact. Queer is odd, out of the mainstream. Queer is a hate word, a weapon against those who are out of the mainstream. Queer is an ownership of freedom, to take a weapon and make a plowshare out of it. Queer is all of us, in one way or another, as queer is human. Queer is a word, with great impact. Queer is odd, out of the mainstream. Queer is a hate word, a weapon against those who are out of the mainstream. Queer is an ownership of freedom, to take a weapon and make a plowshare out of it. Queer is all of us, in one way or another, as queer is human.

]]> By: Thea http://essin-em.com/nofauxxx-giveaway/comment-page-1/#comment-4729 Thea Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:39:33 +0000 http://essin-em.com/?page_id=1709#comment-4729 Queer is freedom. Queer is living how you choose to live without having to define yourself or your actions. Queer is living without judgment. For me, queer is loving a man despite the fact that, other than him, the idea of sex with a man is almost nauseating. It's loving someone for their soul, their spirit, their passion rather than for their chromosomal identity. Queer is freedom. Queer is living how you choose to live without having to define yourself or your actions. Queer is living without judgment. For me, queer is loving a man despite the fact that, other than him, the idea of sex with a man is almost nauseating. It’s loving someone for their soul, their spirit, their passion rather than for their chromosomal identity.

]]> By: kristina http://essin-em.com/nofauxxx-giveaway/comment-page-1/#comment-4649 kristina Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:02:55 +0000 http://essin-em.com/?page_id=1709#comment-4649 queer = love queer = love

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]]> By: Sabien http://essin-em.com/nofauxxx-giveaway/comment-page-1/#comment-4525 Sabien Thu, 12 Feb 2009 04:24:37 +0000 http://essin-em.com/?page_id=1709#comment-4525 Queer! Queer is Levels. Queer is a hallway of mirrors in the funhouse of human nature. More specifically, human sexual dimorphism. Not just sexuality. Not just gender. Not just social dynamics. It is impossible to talk of "queerness" and get a pin in its back for observation in still life. Its parts and principles come from the expression through those who take shelter under its umbrella. Queer is a title owned by all who use and add to it, and while it is more definitely some things and less definitely others, above all, it represents a congress of the blooming diversity of our sexual spectrum (yet somehow remaining a handy one-syllable word) and a simple label for the people who travel past suppression, stereotypes, ignorance, canon, and old patterns of thinking— who slough the unhealthy, uncreative habit of segregating ourselves for our differences, and exchange it for a meal-ticket into the postmodern buffet of "Whatever, Whoever, However" and the freedom of our own unique appetites. Queerness is playful. It is an ever increasing state of diversity in sexual expression. Queerness is our choice not to isolate, but instead, to embrace. Queer breaks the wall and rocks the Casbah. And that's what it means to me. Queer!

Queer is Levels.

Queer is a hallway of mirrors in the funhouse of human nature. More specifically, human sexual dimorphism. Not just sexuality.
Not just gender. Not just social dynamics. It is impossible to talk of “queerness” and get a pin in its back for observation in still life.
Its parts and principles come from the expression through those who take shelter under its umbrella. Queer is a title owned by all
who use and add to it, and while it is more definitely some things and less definitely others, above all, it represents a congress of the blooming
diversity of our sexual spectrum (yet somehow remaining a handy one-syllable word) and a simple label for the people who travel past
suppression, stereotypes, ignorance, canon, and old patterns of thinking— who slough the unhealthy, uncreative habit of segregating
ourselves for our differences, and exchange it for a meal-ticket into the postmodern buffet of “Whatever, Whoever, However” and the
freedom of our own unique appetites. Queerness is playful. It is an ever increasing state of diversity in sexual expression. Queerness is
our choice not to isolate, but instead, to embrace.

Queer breaks the wall and rocks the Casbah. And that’s what it means to me.

]]> By: Sarah http://essin-em.com/nofauxxx-giveaway/comment-page-1/#comment-4485 Sarah Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:16:12 +0000 http://essin-em.com/?page_id=1709#comment-4485 I just gave a class presentation on queerness tonight! It’s such a complicated word. On one hand, it can be used as an all-encompassing term to kind of lump all sexually (and gender-ly) non-normative people together (even the kinky straight ones). As a personal identity, it expresses my own capability to love and be loved by the entire spectrum of gender/sexual identities. But then, it so often manifests as a sensibility, too–an appreciation for the subversion of heteronormativity, and aligning yourself with society’s most marginal ideas and practices. Queerness, I think, is one of those complexities that’s sometimes easier to define by what it *isn’t* rather than what it is. I just gave a class presentation on queerness tonight! It’s such a complicated word. On one hand, it can be used as an all-encompassing term to kind of lump all sexually (and gender-ly) non-normative people together (even the kinky straight ones). As a personal identity, it expresses my own capability to love and be loved by the entire spectrum of gender/sexual identities. But then, it so often manifests as a sensibility, too–an appreciation for the subversion of heteronormativity, and aligning yourself with society’s most marginal ideas and practices.

Queerness, I think, is one of those complexities that’s sometimes easier to define by what it *isn’t* rather than what it is.

]]> By: Carnivalesq http://essin-em.com/nofauxxx-giveaway/comment-page-1/#comment-4484 Carnivalesq Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:15:18 +0000 http://essin-em.com/?page_id=1709#comment-4484 Queer is an identity and a multiplicity of identities. It encompasses lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and transsexual and also pansexal, polyamorous, transdrogynous and beyond. Queer is the taking back of a pejorative term and the reclamation of identity. Queer is what you make it. Queer is an identity and a multiplicity of identities. It encompasses lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and transsexual and also pansexal, polyamorous, transdrogynous and beyond. Queer is the taking back of a pejorative term and the reclamation of identity. Queer is what you make it.

]]> By: Randi http://essin-em.com/nofauxxx-giveaway/comment-page-1/#comment-4483 Randi Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:14:39 +0000 http://essin-em.com/?page_id=1709#comment-4483 I can’t say that the word “queer” means anything to me other than as a way to define “strange”. I guess I classify people (if I were told that I HAD to classify) as either straight, gay, or bisexual. I hate the whole “I’m bicurious” deal. Being curious about something doesn’t make you one thing or another, right? It just makes you human! I just don’t see why people have to get so politically correct about stuff - why it’s necessary to define yourself and then to categorize, alphabetize, and file yourself into the right drawer. I can’t say that the word “queer” means anything to me other than as a way to define “strange”.

I guess I classify people (if I were told that I HAD to classify) as either straight, gay, or bisexual. I hate the whole “I’m bicurious” deal. Being curious about something doesn’t make you one thing or another, right? It just makes you human!

I just don’t see why people have to get so politically correct about stuff – why it’s necessary to define yourself and then to categorize, alphabetize, and file yourself into the right drawer.

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