From one of my academic moles:
From her speech, “Undoing Gender,” presented at Ohio State March 29, 2004, Judith Butler’s words of wisdom:
“Challenge the assumption that a natural dimorphism should be maintained at all costs.”
“…the epistomological question of what sex can be perceived at all outside the cultural matrix”
On accepting DSM-IV trans-gender diagnoses to get funding for The Operation: “One exercises this right only by submitting to a pathologizing discourse.”
“We must be undone in order to do ourselves.”
At this point, the whole audience ought to have suspected she just did us.






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