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Kehlani and the significance her sexuality

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Kehlani is an American musician who identifies as queer and pansexual. This for Kehlani

means that she loves men, women, intersex, transgender, non-binary as well as queer people and

pansexual people too. She is not limited to societal constructs of sexuality or how to love and

who to love. Borrowing from Rupp (1999) who suggests that, “sexuality is not a fixed essence,

understood and practiced in the same way across history and around the globe” Kehlani, argues

that love is love and it lies in very gender that there is.

Rupp avoids using terms such as gay, lesbian and homosexual to describe individuals and

instead uses the terms ‘same-sex love’ and ‘sexuality’ to define a wide array of emotions and

actions of people living in a time when those categories had not yet been named and claimed.

Even now, the LGBTQ continuously grows to accommodate many people and offers a wide

spectrum of identities. In current times, it has become important for everyone to find their own

identity or create one they prefer, and hence terms such as homosexuality continuously lose

meaning while new terms come up as well as new meanings to old terms. Kehlani argues that she

is queer and not bisexual and identifies as a pansexual as she is a lover of people across the

spectrum. She further argues that she identifies as queer and not gay because she felt that gay

always insisted there was still a line drawn as to which 'label' of human she was attracted when

she just loved everybody. In doing so she further rejects societal constructs of labels and the

roles labels play in defining what our lives should be.

The meaning of words and cultural beliefs go hand in hand such that the word woman

comes with descriptions such as mistress and girlfriend, a female servant or domestic help while

the description of man does not have gender roles assigned to it. In the modern day, Kehlani has

found herself on the receiving end from members of the LGBTQ community for being pregnant.

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Running head: KEHLANI Kehlani and the significance her sexuality Student’s Name Professor’s Name Course Title Date KEHLANI 2 Introduction Kehlani is an American musician who identifies as queer and pansexual. This for Kehlani means that she loves men, women, intersex, transgender, non-binary as well as queer people and pansexual people too. She is not limited to societal constructs of sexuality or how to love and who to love. Borrowing from Rupp (1999) who suggests that, “sexuality is not a fixed essence, understood and practiced in the same way across history and around the globe” Kehlani, argues that love is love and it lies in very gender that there is. Rupp avoids using terms such as gay, lesbian and homosexual to describe individuals and instead uses the terms ‘same-sex love’ and ‘sexuality’ to define a wide array of emotions and actions of people living in a time when those categories had not yet been named and claimed. Even now, the LGBTQ continuously grows to accommodate many people and offers a wide spectrum of identities. In current times, it has become important for everyone to find their own identity or create one they prefer, and hence terms such as homosexuality continuously lose meaning while new terms come up as well as new meanings to old terms. Kehlani argues that she is queer and not bisexual and identifies as a pansexual as she is a lover of people across the spectrum. She further argues that she identifies as queer and not gay because ...
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