Until we learn that other lives are equally grievable and have an equal demand on us to be grieved - especially the ones that we've helped to eliminate - I'm not sure we'll really be on the way to overcoming the problem of dehumanization.

I wonder whether I might have meant "terrify us" but perhaps as well there was a less than conscious effort to show that the suppression of debate about Palestine and about the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement - within many academic circles - does seek to establish those who would address such issues in speech as already collaborating with "terrorist" regimes, although now only Hamas is officially terrorist according to the US government and its allies.

We're trying to divide groups or decide that some of them are truly victims and some of them are truly aggressors.

Perhaps the promise of phallus is always dissatisfying in some way.

I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality.

The life doesn't simply get erased. It gets imprinted and remembered.

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