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There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; that identity is performatively constituted by the very "expressions" that are said to be its results.
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Indeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible.
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Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.
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Surely binationalism is not love, but there is, we might say, a necessary and impossible attachment that makes a mockery of identity, an ambivalence that emerges from the decentering of the nationalist ethos and that forms the basis of a permanent ethical demand.
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I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
Jack Kerouac
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February 24, 1956
(age 68)
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