Sublime

their subjectivities more generally, because they reject homosexuality without shoring up their straightness, remain just over the horizon, in some other speculative space that manages to endlessly delay and defer their queerness.

punctured by corporeality;

Wenn Lawson, a psychologist who is both autistic and transgender, has long focussed on issues for autistic females. He has noted that terms such as ‘camouflaging’ and ‘masking’ carry rather negative connotations of deceitfulness, or the need to hide something because it is somehow shameful. Instead he has suggested a rather unwieldy term, ‘adaptive

Slash throws conventional notions of masculinity into crisis by removing the barriers blocking the realization of homosocial desire;

refusal of fixed-object choices in favor of a fluidity of erotic identification,

Porn reflects transformations in digital media technologies and in how we understand and employ the sexually expressed and expressive body.

certitude

this obsession with niche identities advances the idea that at the heart of gender and sexuality is the notion of choice. This works directly against the ‘born this way’ mantra of the various gay liberation movements of the twentieth century.

The swarm presents as a mass rather than a unitary enemy and offers no obvious target; thinking as a single superorganism, the swarm is elusive, ephemeral, in flight. Like