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Marginalia: edge identities, 2004

Is it possible to address questions of difference without recourse to notions of “identity”? What if we started talking about practice instead of identity? This paper, delivered at the inaugural Australian Multicultural Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender and Intersex Conference (is there any question why I’m trying to escape from identity?), examines these issues at the intersection between ethnicity and sexuality.

In this article:

[1: the personal introduction bit]
[2: the academic bit]
[3: the bit where they ask questions]

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Queering the Boundary

A paper for presentation at Bi Con 98, and working towards the book, Marginalia: edge identities and the virtual community

This paper has a lot to do with beginnings: it speaks about the commencement of a particular type of queer politic in the Sydney communities and signifies the first public enunciations of certain concepts which I am working towards in the form of a book, to be called Marginalia: edge identities and virtual communities.

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