“It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.”
– Jean Baudrillard
This quote comes from Jean Baudrillard’s book, America. In this passage he’s discussing the sexual revolution from a postmodern perspective. Sexual identities matter today but they haven’t always been so important. Baudrillard asks: what might would a new model of social belonging look like in the future if we were less preoccupied with rigid categories of sex and gender?

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