In Fact In Politics, Sometimes The Thing

Everyone Has A Set Of Presuppositions: What Gender Is, What It's Not. And They May Not Write Them Out Or They May Not Be In Theoretical Books Published By Routledge, But They Have A Theory.

It's Not Like It's A Brand New Vocabulary That Permits To Have A New Reality. It's Rather A New Vocabulary That Lets Us See That Our Lives Have Always Been More Complex Than Traditional Categories Allow. So, I Think, You Know, Maybe The Introduction Of New Words Permits Us To Rethink What We've Taken For Granted About What Forms Bodies Take, What The Name Is For Certain Kinds Of Sexual, Intimate Relations, How We Think Of A Life.

I Think Something Happens Only When People Find That They Are Moved With Others, Find Themselves Linked Or Allied In New Ways, Showing Up Or Speaking Out In Ways That Resonate With One Another. That Resonating Can Be Very Compelling And Lead To Moving And Speaking More Emphatically And With Sharper Focus.

Let's Face It. We're Undone By Each Other. And If We're Not, We're Missing Something. If This Seems So Clearly The Case With Grief, It Is Only Because It Was Already The Case With Desire. One Does Not Always Stay Intact.

Intersectionality Has Made An Important Contribution To Social And Political Analysis, Asking All Of Us To Think About What Assumptions Of Race And Class We Make When We Speak About "women" Or What Assumptions Of Gender And Race We Make When We Speak About "class." It Allows Us To Unpack Those Categories And See The Various Kinds Of Social Formations And Power Relations That Constitute Those Categories.