"I think black trans men aren't palatable to the mainstream idea of what trans is".
With no hard data about whether adding Zetia to Zocor prevents heart attacks or strokes, doctors and patients are left balancing two scientific arguments: the mainstream idea that cholesterol drugs work just by lowering cholesterol; and the case made by a handful of rebels who say that their benefit is more complex.
Labelling these individuals as being like 'subculture activists' - trying to deter from the mainstream idea of creativity, with a certain attitude brought into the field of fine art - he proposes as his idea of the 'urban artist'.
This is a carefully painted portrait which tears down the extravagant misconceptions that cling to the modern state of the genre (the mainstream idea that it is rooted in money, sex and violence).
One must know something about pain: what might that injury feel like?" She goes on, "One must know something about desire, and need, and frustration: what is the basis of the need, or desire, to marry?" How, she wonders, did this mainstream idea "in the first decade of the twenty first century, become positively toxic, at least in the context of confirmation battles to the Supreme Court".
But Ms. West adds: "One must also know something about feelings of loss: What does it feel like to lose the use of a hand, or to lose even just a slight possibility of years of life?" How, she wonders, did this mainstream idea "in the first decade of the 21st century, become positively toxic, at least in the context of confirmation battles to the Supreme Court".
By this, Marx meant that the conventional or mainstream ideas taught in classrooms, preached from pulpits, and communicated through the mass media are ideas that serve the interests of the dominant class.
He is dismayed by the now mainstream idea that the state can best discharge its responsibility for core children's services by putting them into a commercial marketplace.
Experiments in energy decentralisation and in energy production within the household question this divide, but the survey data suggest that such radical experiments – capable to foster systemic change – coexist with forms of experimentation that do not fundamentally challenge mainstream ideas about the production and consumption of energy in the city.
As a black person and as a gay person, I come from a very marginal place, away from the rut of a perceived black masculinity, which is very narrow, of a certain machismo; and away from mainstream ideas of the kind of David Furnish-Elton John kind of gay respectability.
