All Of Us, As Bodies, Are In

Perhaps The Promise Of Phallus Is Always Dissatisfying In Some Way.

Look, "gender Trouble" Includes A Critique Of The Idea That There Are Two Ideal Bodily Forms, Two Ideal Morphologies: The Masculine And The Feminine. I Want To Suggest That Today The Intersex Movement Is Very Engaged With Criticizing That Idea.

Because Al-qaeda Has Been A Non-state Centered Organisation, Many Of These Scenarios Do Not Exactly Apply. These Are Not Wars Between States. And Yet, It Seems To Me That We Make A Mistake If We Accept The View That States Are Fighting Terrorism, Since We Have Abundant Evidence For Accepting The Idea Of State Terrorism, And What Is Most Urgent Is To Track And Expose How State Terrorism Operates Under The Rubric Of "democracy."

Gender Assignment Is A "construction" And Yet Many Genderqueer And Trans People Refuse Those Assignments In Part Or In Full. That Refusal Opens The Way For A More Radical Form Of Self-determination, One That Happens In Solidarity With Others Who Are Undergoing A Similar Struggle.

You're An Evolving And Transforming Person, Right? And How Do We Capture That Dynamics Of Sexuality In That Complex Sense? There May Be Times When Someone Feels Oneself More Overly Masculine Or Maybe More Feminine, Or Where The Terms Themselves Become Confused, Where Passivity And Activity Also Don't Maintain Their Usual Meaning.