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Lacanian theory must be understood as a kind of slave morality.

It seems to me that responsiveness is a better source for understanding what moral claims are and how they work upon us.

I was off to Yale to be a lesbian

Life has to be protected. It is precarious. I would even go so far as to say that precarious life is, in a way, a Jewish value for me.

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

Photography has a relation to intervention, but photographing is not the same as an intervening.

It seems that every text has more sources than it can reconstruct within its own terms.

I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic.

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

Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.

War begets war. It produces outraged and humiliated and furious people. That is almost invariably the case.

A man who reads effeminate may well be consistently heterosexual, and another one might be gay. We can't read sexuality off of gender.

The exclusion of those who fail to conform to unspoken normative requirements of the subject.

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

Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.

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

Laughter emerges in the realization that all along the original was derived.

Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

We must be undone in order to do ourselves: we must be part of a larger social fabric of existence in order to create who we are.

Peace is a resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war .

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

Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act ... a doing rather than a being.

We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.

The argument that all Jews have a heartfelt investment in the state of Israel is untrue. Some have a heartfelt investment in corned beef sandwiches.

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

Perhaps the promise of phallus is always dissatisfying in some way.

I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist.