Breaking The Binaries

This past semester, I took an honors core seminar, which is a combination of two classes that have similar topics and relate to one another. This seminar combined Gender, Identity, and Literature with Women and Creativity and it was called "Breaking the Binaries." The phrase "breaking the binaries" is something that's been explored all throughout the courses and is going to be the main focus here. To give some context, when we talk about the word "binary," we mean two things that are opposites. Examples of binaries include man vs. woman, reason vs. emotion, heterosexual vs. homosexual, etc. Typically it's clear that one is superior to the other. My main focus here is on gender and sexuality, so the two main binaries are man vs. woman and heterosexual vs. homosexual. Throughout our history and even in present day, we see that females and people within the LGBTQ community are treated as inferiors because they're different than the "normal...