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Putting an end to limiting physical world-views.

Submitted by holsn39 on Sat, 12/12/2009 - 4:24am

GAS Works Web Paper 3

Putting an end to limiting physical world-views.

Queering Your Identity, a film.

Submitted by holsn39 on Sat, 12/05/2009 - 11:40pm

GAS Works Web Paper 4

Heather Olson
12/05/09
Final Project Proposal
Queering Your Identity, a Film
For my concluding project in this Gender and Sexuality class I want to explore the concept of queer identity. What does is mean to be queer? And how does our identity alter the way we experience the world. Using the idea that gender and/or other identities like disabled is a "construction" I am going to present an experience of the world that is constructed to represent transitive identity. What would it be like to live embodied as a transitive character? Is there anything that makes us not queer besides a desire to be normal?
First I want to explain what my definition queer identity is: