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heteroqueerness

noun

Etymology

From heteroqueer + -ness.

  1. derived from *terkʷ-✻ — “to turn, twist, wind”
  2. derived from *þwerhaz✻
  3. derived from *þwerh✻
  4. derived from thwerh
  5. prefixed as heteroqueer — “hetero + queer”
  6. suffixed as heteroqueerness — “heteroqueer + ness”

Definitions

  1. The state of being heteroqueer.

    • Robert Heasley has begun to address the notion of heteroqueerness as it pertains specifically to the male subject. His paper focuses on a typology of men who perform queer masculinities and also identify as straight.
    • She [Roberta Mock] defines queer as the ‘politics of the liberation of desire’ (2003, 23) and I would contend that heterosexual women who actively express a lack of desire to reproduce performing heteroqueerness.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA