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Gender Trouble. Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

by Judith Butler

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Jul 10, 2022 03:36AM

“The first time I saw a fingerbowl was at the home of my benefactress. [...]
The water had a few cherry blossoms in it, and I thought it must be some clear sort of Japanese after-dinner soup and ate every bit of it, including the crisp little blossoms.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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“Man cannot be homophobic without having concerned himself with another’s sex life.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: hatred, homophobia, sex, sex-life, sexuality

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“The truth is, the notion that gay marriage is harmful to marriage, is sort of mind-boggling, because these are people trying to get married. But it seems to me, if you want to defend marriage against something, defend it against divorce.”
― Cokie Roberts

tags: defense-of-marriage, divorce, homophobia, lgbt-rights, lgbtq, marriage, marriage-equality

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“If your social consciousness seems stuck in 1975, 2014 is gonna be a rough ride.”
― John Scalzi

tags: feminism, homophobia, political-correctness, racism, sexism, social-consciousness, social-justice

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“We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom.
We lived in the gaps between the stories.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

tags: freedom, stories

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