It is true that one was not allowed at the time to really ask, what would lead people to do this, from what sense of political outrage or injury? And in that way, the possibility of sympathetic identification was foreclosed. That does not mean that some people took quiet pleasure in certain icons of US capitalism coming down, even though they would oppose such action on moral and political grounds.

What is most important is to cease legislating for all lives what is liveable only for some, and similarly, to refrain from proscribing for all lives what is unlivable for some.

I think we have to ask, not, what "Gender trouble" is today but where "Gender trouble" is today.

All of us, as bodies, are in the active position of figuring out how to live with and against the constructions - or norms - that help to form us.

So there might be a kind of collective effort that allows for those risks to be taken, pose a certain danger but not a suicidal one.

When we say gender is performed, we usually mean that weve taken on a role or were acting in some way and that our acting or our role playing is crucial to the gender that we are and the gender that we present to the world.

All of those who inhabit the world have a right to be here by virtue of their being here at all. To be here means you have a right to be here.