The tattoo I just got was based on a Tennyson poem (The Two Voices), so I want to talk for a sec about how scholarship handles queerness.
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The point is, multi-faceted gender and sexuality dynamics have *always* been present in our art, media, and culture.
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And academics have historically gone through exceptional lengths to erase these interpretations to hold up their heroes as normative.
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This still happens in technology, which fancies itself as academia-adjacent. The CoC battles in *every* language community make this clear.
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When we trend toward the default, we erase the beautiful details of a person's life that caused them to create in the first place.
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