As the essence of queer, I think of Tim Dean's work on being queer and queer not as being about who you're having sex with—that can be a dimension of it—but queer as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and it has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "As the essence of queer, I think of Tim Dean's work on being queer and queer not as being about who you're having sex with—that can be a dimension of it—but queer as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and it has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live." in the context of "bell hooks, Peake, Amber (December 16, 2021). "'Queer-pas-gay' identity meaning explored as bell hooks dies aged 69". TheFocus." to mean that wisdom is timeless.