Race and class are rendered distinct analytically only to produce the realization that the analysis of the one cannot proceed without the other. A different dynamic it seems to me is at work in the critique of new sexuality studies.
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There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.Judith Butler
I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist.
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The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities.
Judith Butler
When the woman in the audience at my talk said I survived lesbian feminism and still desire women, I thought that was a really great line, because one of the problems has been the normative requirement that has emerged within some lesbian-feminist communities to come up with a radically specific lesbian sexuality.
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There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results.
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I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic.
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