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Texts of Our Institutional Lives: From Transaction to Transformation: (En)Countering White Heteronormativity in "Safe Spaces"
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Fox, Catherine – College English, 2007
On various campuses, including the author's, "safe space" stickers are used to designate offices supposedly free of homophobia. The author critiques this practice, pointing out that it still privileges the white heterosexual subject while also obscuring connections between sexuality, gender, and race. (Contains 10 notes.)
Descriptors: Homosexuality, Sexual Orientation, Critical Theory, School Culture
When We Say "Out of the Closet"
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Stanely, Julia P. – College English, 1974
Until very recently, gay slang reflected the sexism, classicism, and racism of straight English. (JH)
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Homosexuality, Lexicology, Linguistics