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

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.

I do think it's important that we experiment with new vocabularies. That new words help us conceptualize our social existence in a different way.

I agree completely that nothing is more important for transgender people than to have access to excellent health care in trans-affirmative environments, to have the legal and institutional freedom to pursue their own lives as they wish, and to have their freedom and desire affirmed by the rest of the world. This will happen only when transphobia is overcome at the level of individual attitudes and prejudices and in larger institutions of education, law, health care, and kinship.

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.

To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination.

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