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Gender Identity
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The sense of "being" male or "being" female. For some people, this is in accord with physical anatomy. For transgender people, this may differ from physical anatomy or expected social roles. It is important to note that this and biological sex, and sexual orientation are not necessarily linked.
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Heterosexism
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The concept that male female attraction is natural, normal, superior and required. A system of beliefs about the superiority of male female attraction evidenced in the exclusion, by omission or design, of gay, lesbian and bisexual persons in assumptions, communication, policies, procedures, events, or activities.
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Heterosexual |
A person who is primarily and/or exclusively attracted to members of a gender or sex that is seen to be "opposite" or other than the one with which they identify or are identified. |
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Homosexual
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A person who is primarily and /or exclusively attracted to members of what they identify as their own sex or gender. Because the term possesses connotations of disease and abnormality, some people do not like to identify as this. Still others do not feel that it accurately defines their chosen identity.
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Lesbian |
One who identifies as a woman who is primarily or exclusively attracted to others who identify as women. |
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Sex Reassignment (SRS) |
A surgical procedure that modifies one's primary and/or secondary sex characteristics. This process was formerly called a "sex change operation," a phrase now considered offensive. |
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Sexual Orientation |
A person's emotional, physical and sexual attraction and the expression of that attraction with other individuals. Some of the better-known labels or categories include "bisexual," "multisexual," "pansexual," "omnisexual," "lesbian," "gay" ("homosexual" is a more clinical term), or "heterosexual". |
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Trans
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Abbreviation for transgender, transsexual, or some other form of this identity. This term can invoke notions of transcending beyond, existing between, or crossing over borders.
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Transgender |
An umbrella term used to describe people who do not fit into traditional gender categories, including transsexuals, transvestites or cross-dressers, intersexuals or hermaphrodites, and sometimes, even people who identify as butch or femme. Can invoke notions of transcending beyond, existing between or crossing over borders. |
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Transition
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The period when one is changing from living as one sex or gender to a different conception of sex or gender. This process is complicated, multi-step process that may include surgically and/or hormonally altering one's body.
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Transsexuals
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People who believe that they are of one gender trapped in the body of the other gender. A person who has altered or intends to alter her/hir/his anatomy, either through surgery, hormones, or other means, to better match her/hir/his chosen gender identity. As a medical term, this was originally coined in the 1950s to refer to individuals who desire to not only live as another gender, but also to change their bodies through surgery to reflect the gender that often feels more “natural” or authentic. This group of people is often divided into pre-op (operative), post-op, or non-op. Due to cost, not all individuals of this group can have genital surgery. Others do not feel that surgery is necessary, but still remain this identity. a. Non-operative: People who do not intend to change their primary sex characteristics, either because of a lack of a desire or the inability to do so. They may or may not alter their secondary sex characteristics through the use of hormones. b. Pre-operative: People who have started the procedure to reassign their primary sex characteristics, but have not yet had the surgery. This covers both those people who have just begun the procedure and those who are very close to the actual surgery. c. Post-operative: People who have had the actual genital surgery done. These people may identify as a man, woman, an FTM transsexual or an MTF transsexual.
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Transphobia
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The fear or hatred of transgender and transsexual people. Like biphobia, this term was created to call attention to the ways prejudice against trans people differs from prejudice against other queer people. There is often this fear in lesbian, gay and bisexual communities, as well as heterosexual or straight communities.
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Persona
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a character in drama or fiction or the part any one sustains in the world or in a book. This also denotes the "I" who speaks in a poem or novel.
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Plot |
a plan or scheme to accomplish a purpose. In literature, this is the arrangement of events to achieve an intended effect consisting of a series of carefully devised and interrelated actions that progresses through a struggle of opposing forces, called conflict, to a climax and a denouement. This is different from story or story line, which is the order of events as they occur. |
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Point of view
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a specified position or method of consideration and appraisal. It may also be an attitude, judgment, or opinion. In literature, physical this has to do with the position in time and space from which a writer approaches, views, and describes his or her material. Mental this involves an author's feeling and attitude toward his or her subject. Personal this concerns the relation through which a writer narrates or discusses a subject, whether first, second, or third person.
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Prose |
the ordinary form of spoken and written language whose unit is the sentence, rather than the line as it is in poetry. The term applies to all expressions in language that do not have a regular rhythmic pattern. |
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Scenario
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an outline of the plot of a dramatic work, which provides particulars about characters, settings, and situation. The term is most often used for the detailed script of a film or a treatment setting forth the action in the sequence it is to follow with detailed descriptions of scenes and characters, and actual works. Sometimes the plot of a film or television show is loosely called a this
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Simile |
a figure of speech in which two things, essentially different but thought to be alike in one or more respects, are compared using "like," "as," "as if," or "such" for the purpose of explanation, allusion, or ornament. |
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Style
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a manner of putting thoughts into words or the characteristic mode of construction and expression in writing and speaking. The term is also used for the characteristics of a literary selection that concern the form of expression rather than the thought conveyed. this is usually defined by the writer's choice of words, figures of speech, devices, and the shaping of the sentences and paragraphs. Sometimes, these are classified according to time period or individual writers.
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Theme
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the central and dominating idea in a literary work. This may also be a short essay such as a composition. In addition, the term means a message or moral implicit in any work of art.
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