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The Ambiguity Advantage: How Rejecting Fixed Labels May Mitigate Suicidality, Dysphoria, and Mental Distress in Queer Populations

2025-09-06

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<p>AbstractThis article investigates the hypothesis that embracing ambiguity in queer identity—throughconcepts like fluidity, non-labeling, and a theoretical resistance to categorization—can serve asa protective factor against suicidality, gender dysphoria, and general psychological distress.While identity labels are crucial for community formation and political visibility, the processes ofselecting, performing, a...

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Literature Corpus work: 322e32d2-086a-5382-bf55-4fb4fb9dc7e2
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/aus5n_v1

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