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Ben Nichols
Post-anti-identitarianism
The Forms of Contemporary Gender and Sexuality
Feminist, queer, and trans studies are all influenced significantly by anti-identitarian thought. Yet, contemporary gender and sexual identities only seem to be proliferating: nonbinary, graysexual, demigender, and more. This chapter focuses on a series of reference guides that schematize this recent expansion. Often miming reductive reference forms (the dictionary, the A-Z list), these texts and the questions they raise help to rethink the place of ‘identity’ across gender and sexuality studies.
Keywords: Queer theory; Identity; Identity politics; Queer liberalism; Information; Proliferation; LGBTQIA+; Lists
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Post-anti-identitarianism
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The Forms of Contemporary Gender and Sexuality
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Ben Nichols
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Feminist, queer, and trans studies are all influenced significantly by anti-identitarian thought. Yet, contemporary gender and sexual identities only seem to be proliferating: nonbinary, graysexual, demigender, and more. This chapter focuses on a series of reference guides that schematize this recent expansion. Often miming reductive reference forms (the dictionary, the A-Z list), these texts and the questions they raise help to rethink the place of ‘identity’ across gender and sexuality studies.
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Berlin
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ICI Berlin Press
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11 October 2022
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Queer theory
Identity
Identity politics
Queer liberalism
Information
Proliferation
LGBTQIA+
Lists
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© by the author(s)
Except for images or otherwise noted, this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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en-GB
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135
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153
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The Case for Reduction, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Jakob Schillinger, Cultural Inquiry, 25 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2022), pp. 135–53
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Cite as:
Ben Nichols, ‘Post-anti-identitarianism: The Forms of Contemporary Gender and Sexuality’, in The Case for Reduction, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Jakob Schillinger, Cultural Inquiry, 25 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2022), pp. 135-53 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-25_07>