Unfixed in a fixated world: Identity, sexuality, race and culture

At the dusk of the twentieth century the confluence of sexuality and the mu lticultural subject offers a deep interrogation into identity. On the edge of the world, Australia is experiencing a poignant moment of identity crisi s. For someone who is from a multicultural, multisexual background, identit y is fragmented. Law and society demand unambiguous subjects, fixed by soci o-political-cultural mores and expectations. To be unfixed presents difficu lties in negotiating systems of knowledge and power which are fundamentally homeostatic. In the end it is all a matter of being unfixed but connected to "others,'' aware of the substance beyond identity and labels. This is be ing unfixed in a fixated world, challenging gravity, resisting definition a nd compromise.