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  • The court made explicit that non-normative black behavior was at odds with the integration of African Americans into the body politic.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • Within this, virtue is equated with normative behaviours while vice is equated with some (but not all) non-normative behaviours, which are viewed as transgressions, breaches of norms institutionalised into moral dicta.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • I can experience my sexuality as a crip, as someone who fully occupies a non-normative physical space.

    Cory Silverberg: When it Comes to Sex, Are Your Sins Invalid? Cory Silverberg 2011

  • When Jeri Ryan (a/k/a 7 of 9) filed for divorce from her husband Jack; and alleged non-normative sexual activity; his 2004 Senate campaign was done.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Well, My Health Insurance Policy Just Became Illegal 2010

  • But it's also acknowledging that in many cultural contexts having a non-normative body is considered along the lines of "the sins of the father being cast upon the son".

    Cory Silverberg: When it Comes to Sex, Are Your Sins Invalid? Cory Silverberg 2011

  • What is going on is that boundaries of aesthetic normativity are being established by which less common but nevertheless natural features of fiction are deemed essentially non-normative -- abnormal, unusual.

    What is Literary Fiction? Hal Duncan 2009

  • What is going on is that boundaries of aesthetic normativity are being established by which less common but nevertheless natural features of fiction are deemed essentially non-normative -- abnormal, unusual.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • But it's also acknowledging that in many cultural contexts having a non-normative body is considered along the lines of "the sins of the father being cast upon the son".

    Cory Silverberg: When it Comes to Sex, Are Your Sins Invalid? Cory Silverberg 2011

  • Digging deeper still, emergent consistencies between arbitrary acts of definition-by-exclusion serve to establish boundaries of normativity (of self, group, subject) by which less common but nevertheless natural things (types of behaviour, people, whatever) are deemed essentially non-normative -- abnormal, unusual.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • I can experience my sexuality as a crip, as someone who fully occupies a non-normative physical space.

    Cory Silverberg: When it Comes to Sex, Are Your Sins Invalid? Cory Silverberg 2011

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