Citations:hyperwoke

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English citations of hyperwoke and hyper-woke

Adjective: "extremely or excessively woke"

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  • 2018, Brittney Cooper, Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower, page 273:
    Sometimes, in the bid for rightness, feminists and hyperwoke folks can take the joy out of everything.
  • 2018, Goddess Horny, "Guarding the Female Seal of Approval", The Cornell Daily Sun (Cornell University), 19 October 2018, page 8:
    If we refused sex until our lovers were fighting for the rights of vaginas, uteruses and general human well-being, there'd be an army of hyper-woke citizens.
  • 2019, Titania McGrath, Woke: A Guide to Social Justice, unnumbered page:
    Spitting bees of love safespacely,
    With a skullful of broken hearts I brawl,
    Hornlocked and hyperwoke.
  • 2019, Brandon Watson, "A Spartan Kick To The Senses", The Pulse, 20 June 2019, page 38:
    Mostly because of the hyper-woke pseudo-journalism surrounding them and also because the lack of time to be objectively critical.
  • 2019, Steven Asarch, "YouTuber ContraPoints Attacked After Including Controversial Buck Angel in Video", Newsweek, 21 October 2019:
    In a series of now deleted tweets from August, Wynn says that "in hyperwoke spaces" she has to say her preferred gender pronouns which "comes at the minor expense of semi-passable transes like me."
  • 2019, Fatima Zehra, "Translation as an act of resistance", Exeposé (University of Exeter), 11 November 2019, page 10:
    Within literature, ideas of resisting the status quo are not as new-fangled as the syllabi of universities in the Western world would have us believe: from decolonisation to diversification, the assumption unfortunately remains that such initiatives are merely trends, serving as modern-day opioids for the masses of hyper-woke and diverse student bodies.
  • 2019, Terry O'Brien, "Undertow", Exit Zero, 19 December 2019, page 26:
    It positioned itself as this hyper-woke response to the Trump Era, but in the end those elements were just woven into a greater overarching story.
  • 2020, Julia Ebner, quoted in Diana Wichtel, "At The Centre Of The Storm", New Zealand Listener, 21 March 2020 - 27 March 2020, page 29:
    "It's often seen as an outlet to express their grievances but also rebellion against what they would see as the social-justice warriors or hyper-woke millennials or liberalism as a whole," she says.