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

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.

The life doesn't simply get erased. It gets imprinted and remembered.

Although the history of dispossession and exile for Jews is very different from the history of dispossession and exile for Palestinians, they both have recent and searing experiences which might allow them to come to a common understanding on the rights of refugees, or what it might mean to live together with resonant histories of that kind.

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.

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

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