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Against a dark background, there are a bunch of white neon lines making up a silhouette of a person lying in a reclining position.

Reclaiming My Queerness: The Piecing-together of a Broken Childhood

As I reflect on what I had actively buried and tried to constantly forget, I realise how crucial language was in defining how I viewed myself.

By An kush

May 15, 2018

Reclaiming My Queerness: The Piecing-together of a Broken Childhood

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September 2023: Fashion and Sexuality

From codpieces and corsets to thongs and navel piercings, fashion is influenced by socio-cultural and sartorial norms. Diverse competing or complementary strands make up the warp and weft of fashion in the mainstream and conterculture/s. Fashion, therefore, assumes the bespoke role of signalling support for the status quo or staging a struggle against it. How do individuals navigate the dynamic process of self-fashioning to embody the politics of a certain aesthetic? How does fashion provide a frame for the playing out of body politics? What makes the process of dressing up or down joyful and self-affirming? In this issue of In Plainspeak, we will weave together some of these connecting threads between fashion and sexuality.

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