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Queer theory

A framework arguing that identity categories themselves—not just individual people—are constructed, fluid, and structured by power; sexuality, gender, and other seeming essences are effects of discourse rather than eternal truths. Queer theory refuses to stabilize meaning, asking instead how categories came to feel natural and who benefits from treating them as such.

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