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I've heard of many people who claim they'd as soon their children were dead as gay. What it took me a long time to believe is that these people are saying no more than the truth. They even speak for others too delicate to use the cruel words.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

One of the things that 'queer' can refer to: the open mesh of possibilities, gaps, overlaps, dissonances and resonances, lapses and excesses of meaning when the constituent elements of anyone's gender, of anyone's sexuality aren't made (or can't be made) to signify monolithically.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

If I had ever, in any medium, seen any researcher or popularizer refer even once to any supposedly ay-producing circumstance as the proper hormone balance, or the conducive endocrine environment, for gay generation, I would be less chilled by the breezes of all this technological confidence.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Seemingly, this society wants its children to know nothing; wants its queer children to conform or (and this is not a figure of speech) die; and wants not to know that it is getting what it wants.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

I'm fond of observing how obsession is the most durable form of intellectual capital.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

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Born: May 2, 1950

Died: April 12, 2009 (aged 58)

Bio: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick was an American academic scholar in the fields of gender studies, queer theory, and critical theory. Her critical writings helped create the field of queer studies.

Known for:

Epistemology of the Closet (1990)
Touching feeling (2002)
A dialogue on love (1999)
The Weather in Proust

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