Tara Sterreveld’s Reviews > Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity > Status Update

“there is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender: that gender is performatively constituted by the very “expressions” that are said to be its results”
i had not considered how freeing i would find reading this book. i need to read more academic writings on gender by non binary people. i feel so seen

quite dense and at times hard to disentangle - rereading a lot of paragraphs- but very interesting. i think i understand what they’re saying, but i will also be doing a lot of further reading to get a full grasp of the essays.
sitting outside m shed in the sun and much enjoying that