Queering Schism: Mad Lib Notes from a Recent Yale LGBT Studies Conference

How and why, we ask, has homosexuality come to serve as a flash point for so many local and global conflicts?

Fill in the following 18 blanks with a word or phrase according to the prompts. Whatever you do, don’t read below the *!

1. A plural noun
2. A body of water
3. An abstract noun
4. An ice cream flavor
5. A noun ending in –ism
6. A fluid
7. A form of address
8. An abstract noun
9. A container that holds liquid
10. An adjective of the sort used in a dating profile
11. A noun ending in –ism
12. A guilty pleasure (noun)
13. The ultimate grand prize
14. A noun ending in –ism
15. A heteronormative term of endearment
16. [Only three more!] A noun
17. A noun
18. An interjection

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Okay, with your list of words and phrases from the prompts above, read the following paragraph, replacing the numbers with your corresponding inputs.

When confronting the evil matrix of [5], [11], and [14], we must keep in mind, [15], the paranoid nature of gender. Our bodies carry fear of our [8], our [3], and our [1].

Whether you were baptized in [2] or in a [9] may not be relevant, in the end. It doesn’t matter if you’re [4] or [10]. One person’s cup of [6] is another person’s [12]. Remember: some people believe that eunuchs will inherit [13].

Heaven is not a place so much as it is a [17]. And gender is not an identity, [7], it is a [16]. [18].

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