Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
Teresa de Lauretis

Born: 1938 (age 87)
Bio: Teresa de Lauretis is an Italian-born author and Distinguished Professor Emerita of the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Known for:
- Technologies of gender (1987)
- Alice doesn't (1984)
- The practice of love (1994)
- Freud's drive (2008)