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Took my dog backpacking last week. She mostly just took naps. (Source: http://ift.tt/2sK7WbX)

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The Moon reflected in the water lying on the Solway beach.

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bus stops in the DPRK

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Malaysian orchid mantis (Hymenopus coronatus) disguised as a pink flower.

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Eyes Wide Shut (1999) dir. Stanley Kubrick

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Yes, identity essentialism is dumb and letting people play with labels as they please is generally a pretty good attitude to resist the policing of identity.

But at the same time we can not ignore the contexts of power we find ourselves in. Nothing happens in isolation.

We live in a cisheteronormative society that constantly assimilates queer culture, fashion, labels etc. and deprives it of all queerness to the point that it can be absorbed by cisheteronormative culture and can be used by cishets with 0 change to the cisheteronormative power dynamics.

This is not being a puritan. This is just recognizing power dynamics.

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Deleuze & Guattari talked about this extensively: Not all deterritorialization is necessarily liberatory. It can also be tyrannical and serve the existing systems of power.

Cisheteronormative culture taking queer terms and assimilating them to the point that they lose all queerness and can be neatly used by cishet people with 0 investment into changing the status quo is a perfect example of that.