Everyone has a set of presuppositions: what gender is, what it's not. And they may not write them out or they may not be in theoretical books published by Routledge, but they have a theory.

In fact in politics, sometimes the thing that will never happen actually starts to happen. And there have to be people who hold out for that, and who accept that they are idealists and that they are operating on principle as opposed to realpolitik.

We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.

We have to be able track the ways in which fear, for instance, is monopolized by state and media institutions, ways in which fear is actually promoted and distributed as a way of bolstering the need for greater security and militarization.

Popular sovereignty has to be given by a people to itself, and this is the important meaning of self-determination.

Every taxi driver I have ever spoken to has a theory of gender.

Photography has a relation to intervention, but photographing is not the same as an intervening.