Sublime

Like disability studies, fat studies began in the United States in the 1960s, as fat activism, and has appeared in many forms since, but it has only recently established itself as a distinct branch of identity studies. It also draws strongly on queer Theory and feminism, especially as it has developed in the United Kingdom, and has a strongly inter

The Flesh Made Word makes three main claims. The first is that an Abortion Act ends valid law by ejecting natural personhood from law. The second claim is that we are not being governed. The third main claim is that our false legal identity—our gender identity—exists in the form of a self-chosen word. No meaning, only a word.

These men bear the weight of public shaming, yet at the same time their shaming exposes a larger public to the reality that these forms of transgressive sex are in fact possible (even if also always threatening).

This new toned-down gay life-style had started as a vogue in early 1983; by the end of that year, it was a trend; in the year that followed, it would turn into a full-scale sociological phenomenon.

By bringing sexuality to the fore, the movement effectively created sexuality

less to do with the specific acts in which they engaged, than in their transgression of the ostensibly

backdoor pathologization of queerness,