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2022 Revision – Queer Gender Identities and Their Relationship with the Heterosexual Matrix of Today: A Semiotic Analysis on Queer Gender Presentations

Abstract: During this article, I will use Greimas’ semiotic theory of veridiction to produce an analysis of gender identity within queer subculture as viewed through the lens of the heterosexual matrix. Visual analysis of queer individuals’ presentation of self/gender-expression, with insight into queer and gender studies will allow me to further conversations circulating around a…
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Queer Gender Identities and Their Relationship with the Heterosexual Matrix of Today: ASemiotic Analysis on Queer Gender Presentations

Introduction Queer Subculture, the arena for not only homosexual people but also individuals who deviate from societal norms of gender and sexuality, is commonly paired with conversations about gender, often due to queer individuals understanding of discursive and social/cultural constructs: ‘‘The discursive proliferation of queer has been enabled in part by the knowledge that identities…
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The Veridiction Contract and Lady Gaga

The exchange of information in today’s society is based around a degree of plausibility. This holds especially true in relation to the identities that are formed from the bodies we live in. For queer bodies the line of plausibility is very narrow in regard to creating forms of normative gender and sexed identities in relation…
