Contents Tourism: Contents Tourism is a Japanese word and refers to that specific kind of tourism stimulated by Popular Culture. (New Zealand has a standout example of contents tourism: Bored of the Rings, of course. Okay, okay, for those of us who are Kiwis living in Australia, maybe it’s the Hobbit jokes that get old…) Homonormativity: The meaning of homonormativity wasn’t immediately clear to me, and I had to look it up. This word refers to the privileging of heteronormative ideals and constructs onto LGBT+ culture and identity. The word exists because the norms and values of heterosexuality are replicated and performed among the rainbow community. UAP: Unidentifiable Aerial Phenomena. We used to call them UFOs. The new phrase is from the much anticipated document released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence back in June. (Trust me, you’ll have more fun reading speculative fiction. Aliens don’t appear at the end.) Paradisiacal: I wouldn’t have guessed that this is the adjectival form of paradise. (Paradicey? Paradick? NO.) Example sentence: “Island remoteness means that one person’s paradisiacal resort can be another person’s temperate prison”, introducing a very good article at The Millions on the symbolism of islands. |
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