“I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist.”
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There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.
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It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims.
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I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic.
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