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

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

I think we need a politics that allows us to risk what is intelligible. To be maybe slightly unintelligible, too be slightly "illisible". To take the risk of suggesting that the human form might take another form.

Visual renditions of war not only establish what can be seen, and the audio-track established what can be heard, but the photographs also "train" us in ways of focusing on targets, ways of regarding suffering and loss.

I do think it's important that we experiment with new vocabularies. That new words help us conceptualize our social existence in a different way.

Nothing is more important for transgender people than to have access to excellent health care in trans-affirmative environments, to have the legal and institutional freedom to pursue their own lives as they wish, and to have their freedom and desire affirmed by the rest of the world. This will happen only when transphobia is overcome at the level of individual attitudes and prejudices and in larger institutions of education, law, health care, and kinship.

You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance to this particular identity.