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It’s gender that’s a joke, not queerness

Being genderqueer is not about displaying an intellectual image—it’s a matter of life and death.

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I’m sipping a large cup of organic tea on a break from my usual diet of dense academic reading while watching the Baroness von Sketch Show poke fun at people just like me—killjoy genderqueer academic feminists who read too many books and complain that everything is trapped in the heteronormative matrix.