While the women in this study recognise the importance of sexuality labels, we argue that neoliberal discourses encourage an individualist rejection of labels. However, as we observe throughout this article, sexuality labels are also simultaneously meaningful for women as they demonstrate an extended, reflexive engagement with labels. What is their motivation for asserting that public identity categories do not matter? We suggest that in a homonormative, rural context, there is more to be gained from claiming ordinariness than emphasising minority status. Under neoliberalism, ‘identity politics’ is increasingly used as a derogatory synonym for feminism and anti-heterosexism – akin to complaints of ‘political correctness gone mad’ (Bernstein, 2005: 48). Homonormativity represents individuals as free, neutral citizens, whereas identity politics is reserved for ‘others’, thereby making the notion of the ‘ordinary’ citizen gendered, raced and classed. For example, as Hekman (2004: 6) argues, white, heterosexual men are never acknowledged as having an identity.

The image’s small size makes it easy to share across Twitter, Facebook, reddit, or any other social media platform. Rather than weakening its claims, the meme’s simplicity is its strength; in the time it might take a person to write a cogent rebuttal to the image’s claims, users can share the image across dozens of pages and platforms, where it can be deployed as a counter to pro-immigration discussions or claims with little effort.

Following this successful politicization, there were other similar victories that the Critical Bike Ride group could at least in part claim ownership for. In 2012, the first cycling fast lane was opened in the Helsinki city centre. In the transportation plans accepted in the following years, cycling got gradually more attention and a bigger budget. The cycling fast lane plan developed to cover the whole city by 2020. In 2016, the City Council accepted a plan to transform one of the main axes of the eastern city centre into a public transport and cycling only street (Hämeentie 2016).

The reason direct, consensus-based democracy has been so firmly embraced by and identified with anarchism is because it embodies what is perhaps anarchism's most fundamental principle: that in the same way human beings treated like children will tend to act like children, the way to encourage human beings to act like mature and responsible adults is to treat them as if they already are.

During lunch and dinner times, most of the “yellow restaurants” are crowded with consumers, while “blue restaurants” have seen a significant fall in their number of customers.Footnote3333 Cherney and Yeo Citation2019Cherney, Mike, and Rachel Yeo. 2019. “In Divided Hong Kong, Apps Help to Avoid Eating With the Enemy.” The Wall Street Journal, November 7. Accessed December 16, 2019: https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-divided-hong-kong-apps-help-to-avoid-eating-with-the-enemy-11573122605. [Google Scholar]. The pro-government camp also mobilizes their people to support the blue businesses.View all notes

The charade continued even after this with Joe Biden proclaiming that “the scenes of chaos at the Capitol do not reflect the true America, do not represent who we are”.

Civil society often acts towards aims that are defined broadly in order to make them better acceptable to large sectors of public opinion. In this way, civil society is seen as the texture of cooperative and associational ties, fostering mutual trust and shared values, ultimately strengthening social cohesion (Putnam 1993).

Thus, shifting the focus away from relatively powerless and marginalized activists, the ‘capitalism and social movements’ school proposes seeing neoliberalism as a coalition of groups aimed at reorganizing the hegemony of capitalist institutions; an enterprise that involved significant networking and mobilization by business and related organizations, such as pro-market foundations, research centers, and think tanks.

The spread of the new coronavirus and its mitigation overshadowed any other political or social issue. It became the only focus of political debates, mainstream and alternative media and most conversations in daily life.

In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self purification; and direct action. We have gone through all these steps in Birmingham.