Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.

Maybe one of the jobs of theory or philosophy is to elevate principles that seem impossible, or that have the status of the impossible, to stand by them and will them, even when it looks highly unlikely that they'll ever be realised. But that's ok, it's a service.

We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.

There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.

Obama's failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and constitutional rights proved not useful for his international relations, relations which are always pursued in ways that continue to link and fortify securitarian power with the opening of new markets.

I think we won't be able to understand the operations of trans-phobia, homophobia, if we don't understand how certain kinds of links are forged between gender and sexuality in the minds of those who want masculinity to be absolutely separate from femininity and heterosexuality to be absolutely separate from homosexuality.

I want to say that the way in which we understand gender actually changes the way we live gender.