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Why people reclaim words meant to insult them – and how this has become a powerful tool for protest

By Mete Sefa Uysal, Lecturer in Social & Political Psychology, University of Exeter
Yasemin Gülsüm Acar, Lecturer in Social Psychology, University of St Andrews

Saying ‘yes, I’m queer’ or ‘yes, I’m fat’ isn’t just resistance, it can be the start of a political identity.

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