Sentences with phrase «sexual identity seemed»

Yet for the young artists, class and sexual identity seemed to trump questions of race or religion.

Not exact matches

Her real concern seemed to be to reprimand the liberal audience and prevent them from being distracted from what really matters, which is race, gender, sexual identity, and so forth.

My point is really that sexual orientation, like gender identity, is also complicated and full of greys and is also impacted by gender, which is so many different shifting shades of grey, that to say we know where they intersect and where they don't, to pretend one is clear and one is not, seems impossible, especially without better defining our terms.

And yet I think it needs to be said a lot today, because girls are less sure of what it means to be - or to become - a woman, less sure of their sexual identity and, it might seem, less eager to develop it.

With her sexuality almost in suspension — the film plays implicitly on the constant speculation around the star's own sexual identity — Maureen sometimes displays a defiant independence, but at other times seems so delicate that it's as if she's on the verge of dissolving.

How can one construct an identity in a world that is becoming more fractured, fluid, and less coherent; where traditional notions of class belonging, sexual identity, or the role of the artist seem to be constantly changing?