Unfixed in a fixated world: identity, sexuality, race and culture.
At the dusk of the twentieth century the confluence of sexuality and the multicultural subject offers a deep interrogation into identity. On the edge of the world, Australia is experiencing a poignant moment of identity crisis. For someone who is from a multicultural, multisexual background, identity is fragmented. Law and society demand unambiguous subjects, fixed by socio-political-cultural mores and expectations. To be unfixed presents difficulties in negotiating systems of knowledge and power which are fundamentally homeostatic. In the end it is all a matter of being unfixed but connected to "others," aware of the substance beyond identity and labels. This is being unfixed in a fixated world, challenging gravity, resisting definition and compromise.
Offord
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School of Humanities, Media and Asian Studies, Southern Cross University, Lismore, Australia.
Cantrell
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D001315:Australia; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D003469:Culture; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006716:Homosexuality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male