Thinking Queerly: Race, Sex, Gender
Words: 355 Pages: 1 5501Sex is a vector of oppression because people can be discriminated against and in some instances killed for whatever "deviant" act they are pursuing. Sex oppression would include the laws that make homosexuality illegal in some countries, and the rape of LGBTQ+ members that occurs to "straighten them out." The lesbian continuum is a term that Adrienne Rich refers to as, "a range - through each woman's life and throughout history - of women-identified experience; not simply the fact that […]