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Heteronormativity also requires upholding and normalizing binary gender roles, notions of masculinity and femininity, in gender identity and presentation. Warner argues the systemic normalization of heterosexuality is a “site of violence.” Heteronormativity points to the systemic, compulsory nature of heterosexuality and cisgender identity heteronormativity is perpetuated through political, social, and familial systems in order to continue family lineages and uphold “family values.” Critics of heteronormativity point to queer politics, or the resistance of normative sexual and gender identities, as necessary for disrupting these social and conditioned systems that enact violence upon queer people and women. Heteronormativity, a term coined by Michael Warner in 1991, is the social theory that heterosexuality and gender as biological sex are conditioned as normal, while a sexual or gender identity that outside of these norms are conditioned as abnormal. What is crucial about Ahmed's definition, here, is that feminism is action, action that recognizes how our everyday lived experiences are shaped by our communities and larger institutions, such as social systems and education.

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Sara Ahmed defines living a feminist life as, “asking ethical questions about how to live better in an unjust and unequal world (in a not-feminist and antifeminist world) how to create relationships with others that are more equal how to find ways to support those who are not supported or are less supported by social systems how to keep coming up against histories that have been concrete, histories that have become as solid as walls' (p. This project also recognizes how markers of identity are politically, socially, and culturally constructed, but still important to discuss as these markers are used to enact violence upon particular groups of people. Feminism is about liberation and the everyday practices we can incorporate to practice liberation, especially as larger institutions constraint, enact violence upon, and oppress women, queer folks, and people of color - especially women/non-cismen people of color.

I specifically build off feminists of color and Black feminists such as bell hooks, Audre Lorde, and Sara Ahmed, each who call for definitions of feminism to specifically include anti-capitalism, anti-racism, and queer politics (see the “queer” definition for why I use queer). The definition of feminism this project works with is the everyday practices we incorporate to challenge systems of oppression in our networks and communities as well as institutions, such as educational, political, cultural, and social.