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self-definitions

  • plural
    of self-definition.
    self-definition
    noun
    the act or process of defining or identifying one's own character, purpose, role, etc.

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A shorts program about re-evaluating masculinity, “Boys Beyond Boundaries,” which was new last year, has returned with films like Christina Willings’s Canadian documentary “Beauty,” featuring five children whose self-definitions don’t match their birth certificates.

From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2019

And he made many of those self-definitions, sometimes it seemed for the sake of defiance or attention itself, from ages 22 to 25.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2016

It no longer existed for good reasons, including the fortunate demise of the narrow self-definitions and exclusions on which it ran.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 3, 2015

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