I think it's important to live with a certain danger and a certain risk.

As we interpret ourselves differently, we also live ourselves differently.

Lacanian theory must be understood as a kind of “slave morality.

Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a doing rather than a being.

So for instance in rap music, you very often hear words that would seem very racist, or very misogynous or very homophobic but in some of those instances, the words are being taken back or redefined so that they lose their injurious quality.

To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination.

I am not sure that I know enough about the pre-history of 9/11 to agree or disagree. But I did think at the time that the [George W.] Bush administration took a number of cues from the Israeli government, not only by drawing on and intensifying anti-Arab racism, but by insisting that the attack on US government and financial buildings was an attack on "democracy" and by invoking "security at all costs" to wage war without a clear focus (why the Taliban?), and by suspending both constitutional rights and the regular protocol for congressional approval for declaring war.