Meg-John Barker

Like queer activism, queer theory also moved to focus on practices, the operations of power, and inclusive issue-based coalitions rather than exclusive identity politics.

Post-structuralism is based on the work of various critical theorists, such as Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, and Michel Foucault, although not all of them accepted that term themselves.

Post-structuralists reject the idea of any single, universal, absolute “truth”.

internalization and attempt to portray a “normal” fixed identity: technologies of the self

sexual subjectivity is shaped – through race and gender – in multiple ways.

The body, at the centre of a web of power relations, is measured and categorized in many different ways (gender, race, mental health, disability, age, appearance, etc.), of which sexuality is one category.

moving away from the singular understanding of lesbian and gay studies.

The economy benefits in two ways:
• High levels of productivity (generating profit for employers)
• High levels of purchasing (of products that trade on our insecurities).

We come to occupy these identities through our relationships with the world in which we reside (which offers us different identity possibilities in different times and places).

THERE ARE ALWAYS MANY POSSIBLE STORIES, RATHER THAN ONE TRUTH, AND THESE MAY BE CONTRADICTORY.