Don't think that you have any rights. That is, don't obscure or deform justice, but don't think that one can legitimately expect that things happen in a way that conforms with justice; especially since we ourselves are far from being just.
Vertical superimposition.There is a bad way of believing we have rights, and a bad way of believing we do not ( Read more... )

"What we ultimately have to liberate ourselves from may be nothing less than 'freedom' itself-- that is, from the liberal concept of freedom as a regulative or normative ideal of responsible and self-respecting human conduct." -David Halperin, Saint Foucault, p. 21

"Some queer identities have appeared recently in lesbian zines and elsewhere: guys with pussies, dykes with dicks, queer butches, aggressive femmes, F2Ms, lesbians who like men, daddy boys, gender queens, drag kings,, pomo afro homos, bulldaggers, women who fuck boys, women who fuck like boys, dyke mommies, transsexual lesbians, male lesbians. As ( Read more... )

"A boundary is not that at which something stops but, as the Greeks recognized, the boundary is that from which something begins its presencing." - Martin Heidegger, 'Building, dwelling, thinking'

"Instead of interrogating a category, we will interrogate a woman. It will at least be more agreeable." -Ep Thompson (1978)-- cited in Denise Riley, Am I that Name?

"Conventionally, when one comes out of the closet (and yet, how often is it the case that we are 'outted' when we are young and without resources?); so we are out of the closet, but into what? what new unbounded spatiality? the room, the den, the attic, the basement, the house, the bar, the university, some new enclosure whose door, like Kafka's ( Read more... )