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characters into television series—Will and Grace, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Glee, Modern Family, Orange Is the New Black—has been an activist-supported strategy to give viewers contact with gay people through “parasocial contact,” the indirect experience of friendship with a gay television character.

Professor Dorit Naaman, an Israeli living in Canada who teaches at Queens University, published a personal essay titled “I am a Palestinian Jew Or At Least I Will Be” that she posted on Facebook. She wrote: Certainly in my lifetime this place will be called Palestine and I will be a citizen of Jewish-Israeli heritage. By saying I am a Palestinian J

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Mattachine of Washington: “In the absence of valid evidence to the contrary, homosexuality is not a sickness, disturbance, or other pathology in any sense, but is merely a preference, orientation, or propensity, on par with and not different in kind from heterosexuality.”

What separates the Pixarvolt from the merely pixilated? One answer turns upon the difference between collective revolutionary selves and a more conventional notion of a fully realized individuality. The non- Pixarvolt animated features prefer family to collectivity, human individuality to social bonding, extraordinary individuals to diverse communi

Given the current problem with the rise of victimhood culture, which assigns superior status to marginalized identities,26 there may be an increased temptation to become more rather than less disabled and to focus overwhelmingly on one’s disability. This is particularly troubling if people can self-identify as disabled without a professional diagno