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The term queer refers to identities that radically challenge heteronormative identities and practices regarding gender, sexuality, embodiment, and notions of family. Dominika Bednarska’s essay, “Passing Last Summer,” describes her experience as a queer, disabled woman whose sexual relationships do not conform to established social categories and readily recognizable patterns of gender, sexual orientation, and sexual behavior. The queerness and mutability of Bednarska’s sexuality challenges hegemonic ideas about the fixed and categorizable status of sexuality held by both straight and LGB communities. In dialogue with Bednarska’s essay and/or external sources, discuss your stance on the fluidity and mutability of gender, sexual behavior, and sexual desire.