Nyx McLean, Author at MambaOnline - LGBTQ South Africa online https://mamba.lgbt/author/nyx-mclean/ South Africa's leading LGBTQ news and community platform Wed, 27 Jun 2018 09:58:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.mambaonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/cropped-mamba_logo_output-32x32.png Nyx McLean, Author at MambaOnline - LGBTQ South Africa online https://mamba.lgbt/author/nyx-mclean/ 32 32 Opinion | The trouble with making LGBTIAQ people live on heterosexuals’ terms https://www.mambaonline.com/2018/06/27/opinion-the-trouble-with-making-lgbtiaq-people-live-on-heterosexuals-terms/ https://www.mambaonline.com/2018/06/27/opinion-the-trouble-with-making-lgbtiaq-people-live-on-heterosexuals-terms/#comments Wed, 27 Jun 2018 09:36:31 +0000 https://www.mambaonline.com/?p=85228 Heteronormativity has become a familiar word in debates around gender and sexuality. It’s a concept developed by social theorist Michael Warner in 1991, and refers to the heterosexual experience being positioned as the only “normal” way to be or live. When that happens, it renders any experience that doesn’t fit that mould as “other”. This […]

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