This revenant is queernormativity: the relentless political focus on the destabilized self through the policing of discourse. Rather than queer separatism (as embodied in sexy communities) with the goal of “the dignity of difference,” in Sacks’s words, it seeks the universal essential self behind these destabilized selves. It uses intersectionality as a way of canceling out privilege rather than an intersectionality that recognizes our embeddedness within multiple particular groups. By focusing on the individual and their sins, we forget the group. Identity alone cannot change a space.
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