We cannot choose with whom we cohabit the world.

People who expect enmity to suddenly convert into love are probably using the wrong model.

I think, what I want to say is that yes, my ideas have travelled into popular culture they also emerged from popular culture in a way, or from the general public as you put it. But not as a program.

If we are looking for signs of democratization, then surely we are looking as well for forms of living on equal terms in and among cultural differences.

The state or global forms of power that seek to protect populations considered in danger may well extend their own power through those acts of protection.

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

Until we learn that other lives are equally grievable and have an equal demand on us to be grieved - especially the ones that we've helped to eliminate - I'm not sure we'll really be on the way to overcoming the problem of dehumanization.