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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of abject.

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Examples

  • This example in particular brings that home, in the elimination of ethnic diversity that has taken place, and now -- now -- the closing down of protest: that this is about the fucking active exclusion of the abjected from the mainstream.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Hal Duncan 2010

  • This example in particular brings that home, in the elimination of ethnic diversity that has taken place, and now -- now -- the closing down of protest: that this is about the fucking active exclusion of the abjected from the mainstream.

    Racebending and Integration Hal Duncan 2010

  • But still, let us make one last attempt to answer your questions as regards how such a terrible state affairs can come to pass as the head of a television network agreeing with an abjected minority that their under-representation is a problem worth tackling.

    An Open Letter to John C. Wright Hal Duncan 2009

  • Transgender rage is the subjective experience of being compelled to transgress what Judith Butler has referred to as the highly gendered regulatory schemata that determine the viability of bodies, of being compelled to enter a “domain of abjected bodies, a field of deformation” that in its unlivability encompasses and constitutes the realm of legitimate subjectivity.

    Yet another trans 101, in which Helen tells cis people What’s What 2009

  • And those of us who watch those media, as members of any group abjected on the basis of some marker of deviance from that default, we thirst for stories in which we are represented.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • Further, acting to "defend" the social/natural/divine order from the demonised (i.e. abjected) transgressor/transgression by, for example, instilling that same loathing in others generates a pride in this (self -) righteous action.

    An Open Letter to John C. Wright Hal Duncan 2009

  • And those of us who watch those media, as members of any group abjected on the basis of some marker of deviance from that default, we thirst for stories in which we are represented.

    Racebending and Integration Hal Duncan 2010

  • Transgender rage is the subjective experience of being compelled to transgress what Judith Butler has referred to as the highly gendered regulatory schemata that determine the viability of bodies, of being compelled to enter a “domain of abjected bodies, a field of deformation” that in its unlivability encompasses and constitutes the realm of legitimate subjectivity.

    My Words To Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix — Performing Transgender Rage 2009

  • And those of us who watch those media, as members of any group abjected on the basis of some marker of deviance from that default, we thirst for stories in which we are represented.

    A Sodomite's Sermon Hal Duncan 2009

  • The former -- when we're talking about homosexuality, rather than your bugaboos of incest, etc. -- is a variant behaviour which is used to mark out another group as deviants to be abjected by the unethical who justify their prejudice as morality.

    An Open Letter to John C. Wright Hal Duncan 2009

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