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Judith Halberstam
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“Who, we might ask, can afford to dream of a right body? Who believes that such a body exists?”
― Female Masculinity
― Female Masculinity
“Under certain circumstances failing, losing, forgetting, unmaking, undoing, unbecoming, not knowing may in fact offer more creative, more cooperative, more surprising ways of being in the world. Failing is something queers do and have always done exceptionally well; for queers failure can be a style, to cite Quentin Crisp, or a way of life, to cite Foucault, and it can stand in contrast to the grim scenarios of success that depend upon "trying and trying again." In fact if success requires so much effort, then maybe failure is easier in the long run and offers different rewards.”
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“Mark Seltzer claims in his work on American's "wounld culture" that we live in a society so preoccupied with scenes of violence and violation that trauma has become "an effect in search of a cause" (Seltzer 1998 257).
Seltzer's formulation of the psychological experience of trauma as a belated or retrospective constructino of the pshysical experience of violation describves perfectly the kind of attention directed at a Brandon Teena or a Matthew Shepard; such figures are made to stand in for the hurts and the indignities that are so often rendered invisible by the peculiar closet structure of homophobia.”
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Seltzer's formulation of the psychological experience of trauma as a belated or retrospective constructino of the pshysical experience of violation describves perfectly the kind of attention directed at a Brandon Teena or a Matthew Shepard; such figures are made to stand in for the hurts and the indignities that are so often rendered invisible by the peculiar closet structure of homophobia.”
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