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Wyrd, Weird, and the Invention of Normal

Queering Earth 8 Sept 2026 1 MIN READ

Wyrd was Old English for fate. It became weird, and then weird became a diagnosis. A sheet on the demotion of a word, the Weird Sisters, changelings, refusal, and an idea of normal barely two centuries old.

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