War begets war. It produces outraged and humiliated and furious people. That is almost invariably the case.

The idea that speaking at all on the topic, demanding public space in which to have that debate, is itself an act of complicity with violence, and violence against Israelis, understood as synonymous with Jews, and so violence against Jews, clearly stops the speech with an unspeakable allegation.

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.

It seems to me that responsiveness is a better source for understanding what moral claims are and how they work upon us.

Look, "Gender trouble" includes a critique of the idea that there are two ideal bodily forms, two ideal morphologies: the masculine and the feminine. I want to suggest that today the intersex movement is very engaged with criticizing that idea.

We form ourselves within the vocabularies that we did not choose, and sometimes we have to reject those vocabularies, or actively develop new ones.

Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something.