All of us, as bodies, are in the active position of figuring out how to live with and against the constructions - or norms - that help to form us.

You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance to this particular identity.

We need to be I think equally sensitive to the injurious power of certain kinds of speech acts but also to the subversive and possibly liberatory effects of certain kinds of play.

Neoliberalism has taken new forms since the demise of the Fordist concept of labor and with the emergence of what is understood as flexible labor. This has really come to be the dominant form for about the last 20 years.

The critical image... must not only fail to capture its referent, but show its failure.

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

What we need are poems that interrogate the world of pronouns, open up possibilities of language and life; forms of politics that support and encourage self-affirmation.