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

I want to say that the way in which we understand gender actually changes the way we live gender.

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

Perhaps the promise of phallus is always dissatisfying in some way.

Indeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible.

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.

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.