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Balor

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 **Language(s)** | * Abyssal

The demonic **balor** is one of the most powerful types of tanar'ri, being the second in power after the Demon Lords. They are found commanding the hordes of the Abyssal Lords, acting as generals.

## Ecology

### Description

A dark aura of power surrounds this high humanoid with huge bat wings. Flames glow around his skin. It wields a lightning vorpal sword on one hand, and a many tailed whip on the other.

Balors are creatures of great power, and they are one of the most terrible creatures of the Abyss. They rule as generals over demonic armies. They are the masters of plotting to gain power and destroy the innocent. Even among their own kind, balors are feared, as they motivate their kindred to spread terror and misery. A balor's height is about 12 feet tall. Its skin is usually dark red. It weighs 4,500 pounds.

## Overview

Balor are living engines of destruction. They are demons wreathed in flesh and fire; true nightmares to behold. These huge demons slay living creatures and demons alike with impunity, desiring nothing more than to destroy anything and everything they see with wanton abandon. In the rare instances when demons amass an army, balors act as the generals of the demonic hordes.

Even the gods fear the sheer amount of destruction a single balor can inflict. Many of these creatures have been sealed away in divinely crafted prisons far below the surface of the world or hidden in extradimensional spaces.

Occasionally, a new balor will erupt from the Abyss when a great number of mortals are slain all at once. Few are willing to truly slay a balor, for the deed may cost a hero their own life. When a balor dies, its body erupts with chaotic energy, destroying everything around it with explosive fury.

A balor appears to be a massive demon, standing well over 14 feet tall and weighing 4,500 pounds. They have bestial heads crowned with jagged horns and a pair of bat-like wings adorned with rows of spines and spikes. Their entire body is wreathed with burning fire. Balors always carry a pair of weapons: a lightning bolt-shaped sword and a flaming whip used to capture victims and drag them into the flames generated by the demon’s body.
Choldrith

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 **Language(s)** | * Undercommon
* Abyssal

**Choldriths** were the priest race of the chitines in the Underdark.

## Ecology

### Description

Choldriths had eight legs (though the front two served as arms) and resembled bloated white spiders. Like chitines, they had faceted eyes and mandibles protruding from their mouths. Their ears looked like horns.

### Combat

When possible, choldriths hid behind shields of chitines while they used their clerical spells.

### Society

Choldriths lived alongside chitines in villages inside caverns filled with maze-like webs. In the center of the cavern was always a temple to Lolth. Choldriths served as the leaders of each village, as they were seen as blessed by Lolth.

## Locations

Choldriths were found alongside chitines in the upper and middle-Northdark. However, the majority lived in several connected villages known cumulatively as Yathchol, located beneath the Far Forest. In that city, choldriths made up 8 percent of the population in 1372 DR.
Death knight (D&D)

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 **Alignment** | * Lawful Evil
* Neutral Evil
 **Language(s)** | * Common

A **death knight** is a mighty undead warrior, created by gods of death, evil deities, demon lords or other malevolent forces. These horrible champions of evil are most commonly raised from the ranks of blackguards, fighters, rangers and barbarians, but a paladin who falls from grace near the moment of death may also become a death knight.

## Ecology

### Description

A death knight's physical form is that of its decayed body, with a blackened skull, patches of rotting flesh and two pinpoints of eerie light in the eye sockets. Its voice is chilling, seeming to echo from deep within. Once powerful people in life, death knights often prefer to wear expensive or magic clothing and armor, along with flowing capes to mark them as figures of importance.

#### Abilities

Death knights have an aura of fear that will route weaker enemies. They can channel powerful negative energy with a touch and project explosions of fire and unholy energy.

### Society

Though death knights rarely worked with their own kind, they often had a variety of undead servants, such as skeleton warriors, liches and banshees. They often rode nightmares into battle.
Durzagon

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 **Language(s)** | * Deep Speech
* Duergan
* Infernal

A **durzagon** is the result of breeding a devil with a duergar.

## Ecology

### Description

Durzagon are taller than both dwarves and duergar averaging about 5ft. They are usually rust-colored and bald with a red streaked grey beard.

#### Abilities

A durzagon's beard quills contains a sulfuric poison that weakens foes physically. Their resistances are a cross between both devils and demons with a resistance to fire, cold, electricity and acid as well as poison immunity.

### Personality

Durzagon tend to be revered by their peers as powerful leaders while the durgazon themselves conceal their true heritage either from ignorance or deliberate secrecy to keep knowledge of their powers from their enemies.

## History

Sometimes, a devil will secretly breed with a duergar. The result is a half-fiend whose birth is celebrated in both the Hells and Duergar society.
Cobble

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 **Language(s)** | * Hylian

The **Cobble** are an ancient race that once formed the Cobble Kingdom in *Phantom Hourglass*. The remains of the Cobble Kingdom are found hidden beneath the water on the Isle of Ruins, where the seventh dungeon, Mutoh's Temple, is found. Some of the Cobble race are gifted with powers of premonition. These powers can increase even after death.

## Ecology

### Society

The Cobble race once ruled a large portion of the World of the Ocean King, until its mysterious fall. They were expert architects, constructing the pyramids and tombs on the Isle of Ruins and the mechanical creation Eox that Link battles inside Mutoh's Temple. The Cobble people were likely excellent swordsmiths as well, as Zauz tells of how his ancestors would forge Swords to defend the Ocean King against great evil.

The Cobble Kingdom was a monarchy, ruled by its leader King Mutoh, who was served by four Knights: Brant, Bremeur, Doylan, and Max. It had its own group of Sages, as the graves of nine of them are marked on the Isle of Dead.
Ettin (D&D)

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 **Language(s)** | * Giant/Goblin/Orc (Mixed)

**Ettin** are giant-like creatures with two heads which are capable of independent thought and can each control one arm for attacking.

## Ecology

### Abilities

Typically, an ettin fights with two weapons, such as a morningstar and javelin.

### Society

Ettin like to make their homes in caves and underground regions. In Jotun the word "ettin" means runt.
Mannish Lesbian

A lesbian who may take on male gender roles, and even dress like a man. The idea of a mannish lesbian was often associated with progressive causes such as suffrage and not generally submersive (Bronski 115). While the mannish lesbian can be seen as an inversion of the feminine *foppish man*, it is a much newer term appearing in the 1930's.

*See: Fop, Invert*
Dualism

A dualism involves a binaristic thinking in which there are two or more conflicting forms of identity or being and states that an individual must meet the either/or requirement in which they belong to one of these social categories or the other(s). Anzaldúa argues that this form of thinking is problematic because individuals can often inhabit seemingly contradictory subject positions at the same time and that we need to think outside these categories constructed by this form of dualistic thinking (Anzaldúa).  [Satveer]
Intersectionality

Intersectionality refers to the different categories or axis of oppression in which identity may fall under. An intersectional approach recognizes that we all have different experiences depending upon our relationships to certain power structures, but it also recognizes the need for politics and activism that recognizes the interlocking nature of these power structures. For example, for a black woman, her sexuality will always be racialized and her race will always be sexualized because of the way the black woman’s body has been coded historically (Combahee River Collective).
Queer Inhumanism

This term is used to describe the dehumanization of queer people throughout different historical contexts and times (Queer Inhumanisms). In this way, a lot of queer bodies have had certain things mapped on to them similar to how non-humans have (Queer Inhumanisms). Thus, the non-human is used as the focal point for this school of thought/criticism and the relationship between the dehumanization of queer people and the non-human figures is explored.
Sexual Deviance

“Sexual Deviance is often the cultural and political wild card used to demonize people who do not conform to certain sexual norms” (Bronski 15).  “Treating some sexual behaviors differently because potentially they had less impact on the community had a twin effect on future American culture.  It gave rise to the social (and eventually legal) concept of “consenting adults” and to a domestic-based idea of privacy that offered protections to some people and certain points in history” (Bronski 18).
Goren

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 **Language(s)** | * Low Common

The **goren** are strange creatures found on Draenor that appear to bond with certain elements. Goren eat rocks, ore, and even elementals.

The goren of Ashran seem at home in the searing heat of Ashran's Molten Quarry, where they apparently subsist upon the iron ore found in the quarry and nearby Ogre Mine.

## Background

While the gronn and magnaron shape the world through their brute individual strength, the goren are scavenging opportunists who dart unseen between the lumbering feet of their larger cousins. Roughly the size of an Azerothian trogg, goren live in massive colonies that burrow through the earth, gobbling up minerals and leaving twisting caves in their wake. They enjoy devouring crystalline minerals, which are digested and extruded through their skin, giving some goren the benefit of an armored crystalline shell. The bane of both orc and draenei miners, goren sniff out and infest mineral-rich burrows. Adventurers should be wary of the gorens’ ability to shoot crystalline projectiles and swarm around unprepared explorers in rolling packs, as well as their impossibly sharp teeth and acidic spit.

While the majority of goren are smaller than gnomes, some types grow far larger, towering over even the tauren. Rare individuals have been known to grow to monstrous proportions. This is significantly determined by the dietary success of the individual goren - given sufficient sustenance a goren can grow far beyond the normal size for their species. The largest known goren is Oregorger, whose gluttony has led his frame to swell far beyond the size of any other. It is possible goren simply continue to grow throughout their lives without limit, at least as long as they have enough food to satisfy their ravenous appetites. It should be noted that Goren (not unlike Virmen) has no love for raw turnips, and are not interested in eating them.

Goren reproduce by lay eggs, hatching small swarms of younglings at a time.

The goren inherit the powers of whatever they eat. This specifically includes elementals, but may also work for other types of beings or substances.

The minerals they eat are metabolized into crystalline structures grown as scales from their arms and back. The matrix of the scales is flawless, as if produced from a forge on Argus, only natural. The rocky plates the scales form have magical properties.

The putrid-smelling gasses that the goren contain in their gut is extremely corrosive to almost anything. This may help them with digestion and is likely a factor related to their acidic spit.

While it appears that goren prefer minerals, in at least one instance it is shown that they can and will eat flesh, including that of sapient beings.
Hypersexualization

Hypersexualization refers to the idea of having your sexuality determine your identity and existence. Often women of color, especially black women, are hypersexualized due to racist historical narratives that construed non-white sexuality as dangerous (Bronski, 23). These narratives paint the black women under racist stereotypes such as the promiscuous Jezebel who always wanted sex and could not be raped, the Mammy whose sole purpose was to be an economic unit by engaging in reproduction of slave capital and servitude, and the Sapphire who was maternal like the Mammy but supposedly devoid of the emotional attachment women were supposed to have which made assault upon the Sapphire more justifiable because there was the notion that they could not feel emotional trauma or pain (Combahee River Collective).
Bromance

Bromance is the modern day slang term used  to describe a close relationship between two male identified individuals. It is often used to emphasize the closeness or time spent with one another. It can be linked to “Romantic friendship, A historic concept that was practiced before the construction of homosexuality was born.

See also: homosociality
Purity and Danger

This refers to the creation of things such as social purity groups during the times of the temperance and prohibition movement which argued that unrestrained male lust and desire was a pollutant to the cleanliness of society. This went side by side with ideas of racial purity that many “Progressivists” had in which they believed other races to be sexually dangerous and threats to the legitimate expressions of white sexuality. These “Progressivists” held racist ideas surrounding racial mixing and also hypersexualised other races to further invoke fear of those people’s sexual expression. This theme also extends after the creation of sexology as a theory as “the homosexual” is the new threat to social purity because “the homosexual” gets associated with the child molester, the diseased, and the criminal (Bronski).   [Satveer]
Race vs. Queerness in the Modern Sexual System

Though not always, race and queerness often have a binary relationship in the modern sexual system. The two sides to this binary include hypervisibility, often in the form of racial fetishization, and invisibility in the form of desexualization. Racial fetishization has sexcual and non-sexual undertones. Fetishization involving sexual undertones includes the fetishization of Black men for the stereotype of large penises, the fetishization of White men for perceived attractiveness, and the fetishization of the submissive Asian men stereotype. Fetishization including non-sexual undertones includes gay males’ obsessions with both Black female and White female celebrities/pop divas. Artists such as Beyonce, Nicki Minaj, Lady Gaga, Madonna, and Cher all have their sexual expression exaggerated in portrayals of them in the media to cater to that “sultry feminine queen” trope that gay males have an affinity for and are likely to consume. On the other side of the binary, desexualization happens often times to Asian men who have not had the social and historical contexts to be as visible as other groups have been able to in terms of their sexual expression.  [Satveer]
Astrosphinx

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 **Language(s)** | * Sphinx
* Common
* Draconic

**Astrosphinxes** are malevolent sphinxes whose heads resemble goat skulls.

## Ecology

### Combat

An astrosphinx uses its two great horns to attack with a head-butt first, striking with each horn separately. Its bite is vicious and the claw-like hands are enough to finish most prey off in one hit. In rare instances (5% of the time) the creature wields a magical chaos sword of a large proportion. The magic sword is of +1 enchantment and deals additional damage to lawful opponents. In melee the astrosphinx attacks homicidally, mindlessly until nothing living is still standing. As a rule the sphinx starts combat with its chain lightning first, followed on the next by its breath weapon and then launches itself into melee.

Like dragons, the astrosphinx's have a breath weapon. They may breathe a cone of sleep gas (80 ft long and 40 feet wide). Targets caught will fall asleep for 1-6 minutes. Victims in wildspace in their own air-bubble remain asleep until the gas is somehow flushed out of the air supply.

### Abilities

The most feared attack of the astrosphinx is the ability to shoot a chain lightning, from its eye sockets. It takes awhile to build up enough static to hurl this ball lightning to their foes. While building up the energy, the pinpoints of light in the eye sockets slowly turn from violet to bright gold while filling the sockets. After the chain lightning discharges, the pinpoints reduce to their normal size and revert to red. At this time the eyes of the astrosphinx have overcharged and the astrosphinx is blinded for the rest of the round while the eyes recover from the blast. Again a short while later the eyes revert back to their normal color, meaning the eyes have recharged.
Blood golem

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 **Alignment** | * Lawful Neutral
 **Homeland(s)** | * Isle of Thunder
 **Language(s)** | * Thalassian
* Mogu

**Blood golems**, also known as **anima golems**, are mechanical creations of Archritualist Kelada, under the Thunder King's command, and were forged in the Throne of Thunder. The small golems serve the great Dark Animus. After its defeat, the blood elves acquired the Dark Animus' power source and began empowering blood golems of their own.

## History

### Mists of Pandaria

During the fights on the Isle of Thunder, agents under Lor'themar Theron defeated the Dark Animus and secured its power source within a crystal. Blood elf archmagi were tasked with uncovering the secrets behind the origin of the animus golems' powers, also allowing the elves to empower functional blood golems of their own. The animus' power was adequate leverage for Lor'themar, who had sought to find powerful weapons on the isle to prepare for an uprising against Garrosh Hellscream.

### Warlords of Draenor

Lady Liadrin fields groups of animus golems to help purge the demonic corruption in Talador and to defend Auchindoun. Magister Astalor Bloodsworn can be found empowering dormant golems at Exarch's Refuge.
Anarchism

Anarchism is a political philosophy that rejects hierarchical distribution of power.  Many anarchists (such as Emma Goldman) were the first to speak out against the mistreatment and oppression of homsexuals before their contemporaries due to its inconsistency with anarchism.  Most anarchists are firm anti-capitalist due to the inherent authoritarianism that exists within the workplace and community life.
Moral Majority

This referred to the rise of Right-Wing Christians in the 1970s under the Reagan presidency. The “moral majority” gained a lot of support during the AIDS crisis as causes for the epidemic were largely linked to sodomy, specifically homosexual sodomy. The power of the “moral majority” extended to the realm of entertainment as well, with singers such as Anita Bryant gaining popularity. The rise of the “moral majority” also created more sympathy for religious ideals in terms of the sexual system, an idea that had not been as prominent since the creation of social purity groups.  [Satveer]
Heteronormativity

The idea that heterosexual relations are the natural and correct expression of sexuality, and that any deviation from it is inherently wrong.  Heteronormativity is expressed in many ways, including the myth of humans being originally cut up into two halves - man and woman - that are constantly trying to reunite again (Freud 2).  [Alex]
Hobgoblin (D&D)

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 **Language(s)** | * Common
* Goblin

**Hobgoblins** are a larger, stronger, smarter, and more menacing form of goblinoids than goblins, but not as powerful as bugbears. It is believed they may have created the latter two races.

## Ecology

### Psychology

By and large hobgoblins, like their kin, are considered evil creatures and often meet this expectation. While Goblinoid society is cruel and harsh, some individuals escape it to carry on lives of virtue, though fewer such individuals are hobgoblins than true goblins. Those few who do take this risk and succeed often meet cautious praise and acceptance from outsiders.

Those that do are, however, continuously plagued by their nature. Though hobgoblins are not necessarily evil they are prone to violence and hot tempers and find it difficult to be truly altruistic. When provoked, which is often easy, hobgoblins are vindictive creatures who take glee in causing pain to those that injured them. Those hobgoblins who overcome this nature often do so because of the rewards they find in serving good, rather than evil.

### Culture

Hobgoblins are rarely found in communities where they are not in command of either goblins or bugbears, or sometimes both, and the most civilized goblinoid communities are ruled by the race. This is in large part because hobgoblin society is more industrious and less savage than that of goblins or bugbears. Though sometimes bugbears take control most such communities are ruled over by the strongest hobgoblin, who serves as the warchief.

Hobgoblins have a long tradition of mastering and breeding the creatures of the world into slaves of various sorts. Many, for instance, like working with wolves or worgs. Similarly, many drake breeds were first bred by hobgoblins. Some even believe hobgoblins carried this practice on within their own race, creating the goblins and bugbears in such a manner.

Hobgoblins are immensely protective of their tribe's reputation and military status, so much so that meetings between different groups can turn violent if proper protocol is not followed. However, though hobgoblin tribes are territorial and egotistical in nature they will often unite for a common purpose, such as war against non-goblinoids.

#### Religion and magic

Maglubiyet, the god of war and rulership, is the chief deity of hobgoblins. However, Nomog-Geaya, the deity of war and authority, is considered their patron deity. Since the Spellplague, Maglubiyet has been an exarch of Bane.

Hobgoblins are warriors by nature and prefer martial combatants to those who draw on magic. Those few spellcasters who are to be found are expected to work well with soldiers.
Queer Liberalism

Queer Liberalism refers to the representation and visibility focused politics centered around legal recognition and rights (Social Text). Queer Liberalism encompasses things such as marriage equality, DADT, and HIV/AIDS awareness. This type of politics is often criticized because it is essentialist and presupposes a disembodied ‘view from nowhere’ in which everyone’s experience and goals are assumed to be the same. Queer Liberalism often does not take into consideration the different identities of queers within diasporas, the relationship between race and queerness, the relationship between class and queerness, the relationship between gender and queerness, and the relationship between sex and queerness (Social Text).
Nuclear Family

The ideology of family life and the meaning of heterosexual relationships. Family units were self sufficient; men, women and children farmed the land. Women and children made the household essentials from scratch. The nuclear family depended on each other as a unit of production. By the 19th century this system was in decline, the family no longer depended on each other but on the capitalist system of free labor (Demilio 469). Though the nuclear family has become less fundamental overtime, the idealization of the nuclear family is still a powerful feature of American culture today.
Second Wave Feminism

During the 1950’s and 60’s we see the second wave of feminism takes its rise and with it and a new set of demands. The development of “sisterhood” is very important in this wave because it creates a more direct connection between women and seeing each other as one. The powerfulness of sisterhood becomes the theme to the second wave, and connection with one another. There is also a connection with sisterhood and identity in politics, there is more demand for women representation in office and more acceptance of women as professionals. Sexuality becomes very important during this wave and this large idea that women have the right to their own sexuality and how they decide to go about that identification. Although the focus was revolved around empowering women it was also controversial because it was only a certain type of women being represented and leaving behind the rest of the women. For example women of color and transgender women were not fully represented in this space. Representation became a very important topic but it also teared the movement in two and created a division that we can see affecting the movement.   (Jennifer M.)

This is where the universal category of the woman first emerged. This form of feminism focused a lot on things such as reproductive rights, working rights, and economic rights. It was during this time period that the Equal Rights Amendment was brought forth. This form of feminism was arguably the beginning of a politics centered upon identity politics within feminism. It lasted from around the 1950s to 1990s (Rampton).  [Satveer]
Homosociality

Homosocial relationships were more clearly pronounced in earlier eras when socializing closely with the same sex had not gained the homosexual connotations that often accompany them through a modern viewing.  “The clearly defined separate social spheres for women and men - both the public and private for men, and most often the domestic for women - gave rise to clearly defined same-sex cultures, usually referred to as “homosocial” (Bronski 32).  While homosocial relationships do not necessarily involve eroticism, these relationships certainly could encompass that as well.  Earlier in American history people were not able express homosexuality openly, so often these desires were fulfilled through homosocial practices. [Alex]

See also: *bromance*
Biopower

Biopower refers to the institutional control of bodies. It refers to the ways in which power polices people to act in certain ways. This form of control is how institutions affect discourse and the way others can conceive of the world. When discussing “biopower” in Discipline and Punish, Foucault gives the example of a prison system called the panopticon. The panopticon was a prison structure where the prisoners were put in cells surrounding a central guard tower. The prisoners never knew when they were being watched, so they engaged in self-policing of their activity. In the same way, biopower encourages this form of self-policing via institutions controlling discourse because one never knows when the institutions are paying attention. The control is thus internalized and often unconscious.  [Satveer]
Progressivism

Progressivism refers to the late 19th century idea of increasing things like economic freedom via creating better working conditions, hours, and regulatory commissions to oversee all of that. However, though Progressivism was linked with some feminist and socially radical movements, it still upheld the ideas of white purity and medicalization of sexuality via sexology (Bronski).   [Satveer]
Intelligible Genders

Expressions of gender that can be understood through mainstream terminology.  Cig-gendered people would fall into this category, as well as (at times) transgendered people who look to cross to the other side of the gender binary.  Intelligible genders are differ across different cultures, as some cultures have accepted certain gender expression while rejecting other.
Repressive Hypothesis

Repressive Hypothesis/“great paradigm shift” refers to the idea that increased sexual liberation in the form of recognition or visibility somehow subverts power structures and institutions. It refers to the idea that “Yes to Sex” translates into a “No to Power.” Unfortunately, this expression of desire alone cannot liberate anyone as power is always already functioning in multiple different contexts, ways, and times. The repression idea gives the mirage of being free and liberated, but only veils existing power structures. We get pleasure from transgressing the taboo even though identity is still being molded by discourse.
Gender Artifactualism

The theory of gender artifactualism sees gender as purely socially constructed, without recognizing that there may be other factors that influence gender (Serano, 119). Consequently, many individuals who believe in gender artifactualism dismiss the feelings of trans people that may identify with a particular gender by stating that those experiences are remnants of the gender system (Serano, 119). Julia Serano, who coined the term, stated that gender artifactualism was insufficient for explaining gender and viewed gender as "an amalgation of bodies, identities, and life experiences, of subconscious urges, sensations, and behaviors, some of which develop organically, and others which are shaped by language and culture" (107). Serano argued instead for a *Holistic Approach* to gender.
Gender Dimorphism

Gender dimorphism refers to the idea that men can only be masculine and women can only be feminine. Thus, the natural sexual desire is for opposites to desire each other and that form of seuxal expression becomes the norm (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). This idea is closely related to *Gender Essentialism*, the idea that there are essential qualities existing across time and space that each gender has that define it as such.
Gender Performativity

The idea that gender isn’t something that we are, it is something that we do.  The term was coined by Judith Butler who has written extensively about gender performativity throughout their career but especially elaborated upon in their seminal work Gender Trouble. The idea of gender as pure performativity was critiqued by Julia Serano as being "gender artifactualist" and reductive of the complexity of gender.
First Wave Feminism

The late 1920's, this was a the first movement of two other movements that would follow throughout time to fight for Women’s rights. During the First wave of Feminism we see the uprise of women and individuality basically the women beginning to ask to be seen as equals to the men. The most important set of events that occurred during the first wave was for the right to vote and be given equal opportunity as the men. The first wave was not only important for the women and their personal lives but also for the country as a whole because now there was more opinions to reach to and more political power to be stretched out throughout the country. This movement also broaden the horizons to the country and determined who was seen as a citizen rather than property. The first wave also gave women a powerful identification and new model in which to live by, rather than only depending on their societal norms. This was the beginning of a large social change between the two existing genders. (Jennifer M.)
Myth of the Eternal Homosexual

The myth of the “eternal homosexual” is a historical fallacy that states that “gay men and lesbians always were and always will be” (D’Emilio 468) and that this is a static aspect of society that has never changed.  Initially this myth was helpful in challenging homophobic rhetoric in that it allowed queer people to say that they are here, always have been here, and will continue to be here regardless of how social conservatives feel about it.  As the queer movement developed, it became clear that this idea of the eternal homosexual obfuscates the material and social conditions that preface and allow expression of homosexual desire, as well as trapped queer peoples.  According to D’Emilio, “...gay men and lesbians have not always existed.  Instead, they are a product of history, and have come into existence in a specific historical era” (D’Emilio 468) [Alex]
Discourse

Discourse is the inescapable way that a form of power manifests to form ideas via language and thoughts that shape everything we know and do. It is to write or speak about a topic with background knowledge of the subject. It is often used as a form of explaining something complex, mainly in theory. For example Foucault’s discourse and sexuality and in depth history which is beneficial to his theory.
Genesaur

— The wiki's staff

 **Language(s)** | * Common

The **Genesaurs** are a race of magnataur-sized plant-creatures native to Draenor. Before the events of *Warlords of Draenor*, no genesaur had been born for over three hundred years. A full-grown genesaur would take an army to defeat.

## Overview

Genesaur are enormous demigods who date back to the age of colossals, when giants shaped the terrain of Draenor amidst constant warfare. The botani have retained the ability to communicate with these bastions of life, and genesaurs are revered as gods in their culture. Draenei have not yet determined if genesaur are immortal or not; genesaur emerging from botani-tended pools often retain the memories and will of their long-dead forebears. Adventurers fortunate enough to catch a glimpse of these rare beings are cautioned to give genesaur a wide berth. They are deceptively quick given their size and destroying them will take a small army of well-equipped heroes.

They are being revered by the lesser Primals as demigods.
Chaotic Good

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A **chaotic good** character acts as their conscience directs them with little regard for what others expect of them. They make their own way, but they're kind and benevolent. They believe in goodness and right but have little use for laws and regulations. They hate it when people try to intimidate others and tell them what to do. They follow their own moral compass, which, although good, may not agree with that of society.

Chaotic good is the best alignment you can be because it combines a good heart with a free spirit.
Transmisogyny

Serano uses transmisogyny as a description of the unique violence and discrimination that trans-feminine people and trans women face (Serano, 49-52). Serano states that this transmisogyny often manifests in the form of trans-feminine people and trans women being deemed as hyperfeminine (Serrano, 53). Within these assumptions, trans-feminine people and trans women are accused of exaggerating their portrayal of femininity and making a caricature of it (Serano, 53). More concretely, it is shown with higher murders of trans-feminine and trans-women, particularly trans-feminine and trans-women of color; it is shown with street harassment of trans-feminine people and trans-women; it is shown with the disproportionately high levels of sexual violence that trans-feminine people and trans-women experience.
Cruising

“As ideas of public space changed, homosexuals found public streets and parks useful for meeting one another” (Bronski 123).  In order to identify one another as desiring same sex encounters, people relied on exaggerated stereotypes of sexuality and sexual identity.  While this increasingly public image of homosexuality in the 1920’s and 1930’s was liberating for many, it also brought along new dangers from society (125).  As homosexuality became more public, so too did its expression in fictional media.  [Alex]
Public vs. Private

This dichotomy refers to the idea that things such as sexual expression belonged within the private realm of the home and proper people did not discuss such things within the public sphere of politics and day to day life. There was a problematization of this idea in the late 1920s where explicit forms of sexuality and gender expression in theater such as Burlesque and Vaudeville challenged the idea that sexual expression was a matter for the private sphere. However, these infiltrations of sexual expression in the public sphere also led to more crackdowns and persecution in the public sphere as a consequence of heightened visibility as seen as with the Hayes Code which effectively banned sexual explicitness in films until the 1950s and increased incarceration and institutionalization of homosexual men because of their association as the “sexual psychopath” with the circulation of sexology theory (Bronski).  [Satveer]
Monosexism

Serano discusses the term monosexism to refer to the idea what being attracted to one sex is more natural than being attracted to multiple sexes (Serano, 82). They argue that this comes from the “monosexual assumption” that everyone’s sexuality falls within the binary of homosexism or heterosexism (Serano, 84). This type of thinking has led to bi-invisibility and erasure because bisexual people are presumed not to exist because they are assumed to be hiding their “true” sexuality, faking their sexuality, or are assumed to be confused (Serano, 85).
Social Construction

Social construction refers to the ways in which discourse, or the languages and signs we use to describe reality, codes our bodies with certain characteristics given a specific space and time within history. These bodily codes depend both upon the environments in which one is born into and the different power dynamics that will shape the way in which an individual’s identity is construed. For example, in Athens, the social system of the time coded the bodies of property owning males as “superordinate” and the social system coded women and slaves as “subordinate,” which became constraints for the identities of these individuals. In simpler terms, discourse shapes reality, and while reality may play an influence on discourse, the statement is not reverse causal. Or more specifically in terms of sexuality, as Halperin puts it, “...[the] social body precedes the sexual body” (Halperin, 420).   [Satveer]
Post-Structuralism

Post-Structuralist thought challenged the binaristic and static explanations provided by Structuralist thought. This school of thought recognized the complexity of human experience was defined by multiple factors acting at once in different ways given different contexts. The whole is not merely the sum of its parts. Instead of being linear, it is constantly changing.  [Satveer]
Marriage Equality

Marriage Equality mainly refers to the centering of queer politics on things such as Proposition 8 and DOMA. People have criticized this idea because it glosses over other material discrepancies queer people face and it is mainly of concern to white cis queers. See also: Queer Liberalism.  [Satveer]
TERF

TERFs are trans-exclusionary-radical feminists. They believe that only “womyn-born-womyn” deserve to be a part of feminist spaces (Goldberg). They believe that all men oppress women unilaterally and that transitioning or not identifying with the gender one is assigned to at birth is an instance of male privilege (Goldberg). However, not all radical feminists are TERFs. Some  radical feminists were actually inclusive of trans women and challenged TERFs.
Holistic Approach to Gender

A holistic approach, according to Serano, recognizes that human behavior associated with sex, gender, and sexuality are complex and are affected by different factors given different contexts (Serano, 152). This form of thinking avoids binaristic assumptions and making totalizing truth claims and rejects both gender essentialism and gender artifactualism. Each area of analysis is important depending upon context, and each factor is acting at the same time and in multiple different ways. No one factor or theory is completely deterministic. Instead, complexity in analysis is encouraged.
Neoliberalism

An economic theory that argued that the state should be less responsible for spending money on programs meant for individuals and that individuals should take that responsibility on for themselves. This was in stark contrast to previous ideas of Keynesian economics which argued for more state spending to create jobs and services for the individual. Major support for this idea came from Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. In the context of queer people in the 1970s, Reagan and other members of the Christian Right believed that society at large should not have to pay for the health care for individuals who contracted HIV/AIDS because of their own sin.
Compulsory Heterosexuality

Compulsory heterosexuality refers to the power structures that have historically allow men to control women’s sexual expression and ensure male access to women (Rich, 133-135). This form of thinking is reiterated through two assumptions: that women are innately attracted to men and that lesbians are just bitter towards men (Rich, 130). These assumptions, combined with the power structures that have allowed men to control and curb women’s sexual expression, have created a narrative of erasure and pathologization of lesbian experience (Rich, 135).
Miscegenation

The interbreeding and marriage of people of different races.  Miscegenation has been outlawed for a long period of American history, and is still looked down upon in some sectors of society.  Much of the politics surrounding miscegenation stem from slavery’s justification of “othering” (Bronski 23).  Though miscegenation was socially looked down upon, slave-owners frequently raped female slaves, blaming the women’s “hypersexuality” as justification for the men’s behavior (Bronski 24).
Kinsey Scale

This was an analytic tool developed by biologist Alfred Kinsey. It is a scale from 1-6 that describes sexuality outside of the binaristic thinking of being either purely heterosexual or purely homosexual (Bronski). A score of 1 would indicate complete heterosexual desire and a score of 6 would indicate complete homosexual desire. The Kinsey scale introduced a radically new way of viewing sexuality in the 1940's and 50's.
Universalism vs. Minoritarianism

A universalist analysis of sexuality refers to how a certain sexual system affects every identity, given a specific historical context and time. A minoritarian analysis of sexuality focuses on how a particular identity is affected by a sexual system, given a specific historical time and context. Both universalist and minoritarian approaches are used in Queer theory.
DL

“On the low” or “Down Low” (DL) is a sexualized slang term that refers to men who identify as straight but have sexual/romantic relationships with other men. The term is used to avoid the homosexual identification, I would assume specially if they have female partners that they have not revealed to, or choose to not inform anyone else of their prefrences. The term is also used as a way to keep something a secrete or keeping it private.
Social Body

The social body refers to the notion of how both before and after we are born, certain discourses and our outside environments place constraints in terms of our identities. This goes hand and hand with Butler’s idea that “there is no I before Identity” (Butler). In simpler terms, it refers to the idea that social categories will always shape our bodies and bodily desires. Our desires are constructed and informed by cultural understandings of the purposes of our bodies and are dependent upon their historical context(s) for meaning (Halperin).   [Satveer]
Mestiza

Mestiza consciousness is a confluence of identity that affirms the hybridity of identity and that it can sometimes be contradictory. It is a form of challenging traditional forms of coalition-based or politics that seek to enforce rigid categories that determine the basis of exclusion and inclusion. Anzaldúa argues that these categories are irrelevant in the grand scheme of things because certain bodies will simultaneously be always already both included and excluded in different ways. They argue we need to disrupt this narrative of either/or in favor of affirming the contradictory nature of identity (Anzaldúa).
Capitalism

Capitalism is distinguished by the private ownership of capital in order to make a profit.  Capitalism has played a key role in developing how homosexuality and queer culture is expressed over time.  Capitalism freed people from relying on the nuclear family for support as a unit of production (D’Emilio 469) and allowed for a number of new social phenomena to occur.  It also created a rush towards urban centers which allowed for new groupings of people to occur, including homosexuals, D’Emilio states “only when individuals began to make their living through wage labor, instead of as parts of an interdependent family unit, was it possible for homosexual desire to coalesce into a personal identity” (D’Emilio 470).  People who already had homosexual desires could now find like minded people, and people who hadn’t considered themselves as homosexual were now thrown into environments where they were free to experiment with their own sexuality.  “As wage labor spread and production became socialized… it became possible to release sexuality from the “imperative” to procreate” (D’Emilio 470).  (See Historical Materialism)
Romantic Friendship

Very intimate friendships between people of the same sex, however the people involved were not always sexually intimate. For women these lasted up until they got married for others these friendships continued into their marriage. Husbands encouraged their wives to have friendships with other women since women stayed home alone most of the day. -ex. J. Edgar Hoover’s relationship with his assistant Clyde Tolson

See also: *Homosociality, Bromance*
Maxim Jakubowski

**MAXIM JAKUBOWSKI** worked for many years in book publishing as an editor (including titles by William Golding, Peter Ackroyd, Oliver Stone, Michael Moorcock, Peter Ustinov, Jim Thompson, David Goodis, Paul Ableman, Sophie Grigson, Marc Behm, Cornell Woolrich, etc…) and launched the Murder One Bookshop, which he owned and ran for over 20 years. He now writes, edits and translates full-time in London.

He was born in London and educated in France, and his books have been translated into many languages. From an early age, he was always fascinated by popular culture and his writing and editing has criss-crossed all areas, from science fiction & fantasy to thrillers and, inevitably, erotica.

He conceived one of the genre’s first major contemporary anthologies THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF EROTICA which has since been followed by a further 20 volumes, and four books devoted to erotic photography. In addition to over 90 collections in other genres, he has also edited the SEX IN THE CITY series, and run the EROS PLUS and NEON lists, alongside crime imprints BLACK BOX THRILLERS, BLUE MURDER and MAXCRIME.

He has been a columnist for TIME OUT and the GUARDIAN, and contributed to most major newspapers and magazines, and is a regular arts commentator on British TV and radio. He also ran London’s annual crime film and literary festival CRIME SCENE and is a consultant for several overseas film festivals. He has won the Anthony and Karel awards for his contributions to, respectively, crime fiction and SF & fantasy. He also writes a monthly book review column for lovereading.co.uk.

He presently sits on the committee of the Crime Writers’ Association, and chairs its panel of judges for the John Creasey Dagger for Best First Novel of the year.

His erotica has always proved controversial and somewhat dark and idiosyncratic. His short story collections are LIFE IN THE WORLD OF WOMEN, FOOLS FOR LUST and as e-Books A WASHINGTON SQUARE ROMANCE, WE MATE IN THE DARK and THE MUSIC OF BODIES. His novels include IT’S YOU THAT I WANT TO KISS, BECAUSE SHE THOUGHT SHE LOVED ME, ON TENDERNESS EXPRESS (a trilogy since reissued as SKIN IN DARKNESS), THE STATE OF MONTANA (which sold to Hollywood), KISS ME SADLY, CONFESSIONS OF A ROMANTIC PORNOGRAPHER and I WAS WAITING FOR YOU. He has been called by the TIMES ‘the King of the erotic thriller’. His new novel is EKATERINA AND THE NIGHT, an unusual twist on the Lolita theme, set in London, Paris, New York and Venice, full of his customary obsessions, lust, doom and even supernatural overtones.

For the past three years, he has been busy writing, under a pseudonym, a series of Sunday Times bestselling novels which has now reached ten volumes.
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