It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation.

I never did like the assertion of the "innate" inferiority or women or Blacks, and I understood that when people tried to talk that way, they were trying to "fix" a social reality into a natural necessity. And yet, sometimes we do need a language that refers to a basic, fundamental, enduring, and necessary dimension of who we are, and the sense of sexed embodiment can be precisely that.

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

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

I do not follow closely anymore, since there is a limit to how much heartsickness one can bear.

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

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