If you look at some of the language in the basic writings of Hamas, there is that famous call to push the Israelis into the sea. Now, I would say that most Palestinian politicians on the ground say, of course that's not what we want, and even within Hamas there is some published debate about that claim, but until the claim is removed, it's still noxious.

I think we have to ask, not, what "Gender trouble" is today but where "Gender trouble" is today.

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

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

When we say gender is performed, we usually mean that weve taken on a role or were acting in some way and that our acting or our role playing is crucial to the gender that we are and the gender that we present to the world.

There was a brief moment after 9/11 when Colin Powell said we "should not rush to satisfy the desire for revenge." It was a great moment, an extraordinary moment, because what he was actually asking people to do was to stay with a sense of grief, mournfulness, and vulnerability.

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