Gender Identity and Representation Quiz

How you manifest your sense of gender identity

A term used to describe someone whose gender identity aligns with the sex assigned to them at birth

<p>Any gender identity that falls outside of the binary system of male/female or man/woman</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A person's gender identity that is not fixed</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A framework for understanding how both individual and group identities are necessarily composed of various interconnected aspects, including race, class, gender, ability, etc.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Non-sexual same-sex groups based on friendship, loyalty, love, or shared interests. Examples include fraternities and sororities, sports teams, sex-segregated military united, etc.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>State of being sexually attracted to both men and women</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sexually or romantically attracted to someone regardless of their sex and gender</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Extreme fear or hatred of homosexuals; people possessing this may have conflicts with their own sexuality</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Gender expression that does not match masculine or feminine gender norms</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A border space that exists outside of another space</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Indirect, subtle, or unintentional discrimination against members of a marginalized group</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>People and artifacts commonly found outside compulsory heterosexist ideologies</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A specific type of negotiated reading that simultaneously mocks and revels in a text's artificiality or manneredness. Originated in gay male culture to &quot;denaturalize&quot; societal norms of gender and sexuality</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Victim (tragic)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The role of the sissy is a stock character created to make men feel more manly and women feel more womanly.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The wall symbolizes divisions—cultural, personal, and societal. Hedwig embodies these fractures through their incomplete identity. “The wall” signifies a queer space that disrupts the binary.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The significance is that the character is taking on the role that they have been playing and realize that their identity is not their true self. Stripping down into who they are in their heart.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The tattoo began as two halves of a person (man and woman). Each half looks for the other just as Hedwig looks for his other half. The tattoo ended as a whole being (an in-between of the binary). Hedwig comes to the realization that he did not need another person to be complete but instead, accept themselves fully.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Their presence is a disruption to society. Hedwig is the wall, the space in between binaries so they are disrupting binaries. Without that wall or someone to push against, we don't know who we are. Hedwig causes a riot because we are so entrenched in our identities we need that wall.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>We see Hedwig walking down this narrow alley in the dark naked. This represents Hedwig's rebirth into their new life, to who he wants to be. The alley represents a birth canal and his walk is very clumsy and slow-paced, like someone who is learning how to walk for the first time. It is a symbolic moment of self-acceptance, transformation, and liberation from his past and he is shedding constructed identities and revealing his true self</p> Signup and view all the answers