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«The long memory is the most radical idea in this country. It is the loss of that long memory which deprives [us] of that connective flow of thoughts and events that clarifies our vision, not of where we’re going, but where we want to go.» (Utah Phillips)
— Jan 24, 2023 01:38AM
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«As Sandra Harding argued in Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?, “starting from lesbian lives” means challenging assumptions not only about heterosexuality, but about coupling, kinship, and social organization more generally.»
— Jan 24, 2023 01:32AM
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« Simple models that have treated “genes” as an on/off switch for behaviors or single hormones as “key” to human characteristics are indeed widely outmoded and regarded as too reductive to be of any use at all, despite their startling persistence in popular scientific and medical discourse.»
— Jan 23, 2023 02:54AM
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«A capacity to embody is always naturecultural, such that new biopossibilities emerge through “entangled” processes of bio/political becoming. In this naturecultural world,nothing is “merely textual” and everything matters. That is to say, the intelligibility of a biopossibility and our capacity to actually embody it are interconnected in nonlinear ways. »
— Jan 20, 2023 01:57AM
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«But isn’t that precisely the essence and glory of the lesbian experience? To question, to strive, to transcend outmoded paradigms of behavior? How fortunate I am to be part of this great experiment. How thrilling to be free of the suffocating constraints, the shackles and trammels of thousands of years of heterosexual dogma and convention!» (Bechdel)
— Jan 18, 2023 01:44AM
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«Claims about the naturalness of nonmonogamy in terms of drives or, more
generally, as an inherently and universally desirable way of relating, being,
or living reinforce the notion of sexuality as natural, inevitable, and vitally
important. »
— Jan 17, 2023 03:06AM
generally, as an inherently and universally desirable way of relating, being,
or living reinforce the notion of sexuality as natural, inevitable, and vitally
important. »
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«I entered the lab in December 2007 with the general sense that biologizing explanations for sexual behavior were always necessarily reductive, unable to account for the complex nature of human sexuality»
— Jan 04, 2023 02:09AM
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«The compulsory coupling to which we are heirs certainly intimates marriage’s haunted history, from its institutionalization of women’s subordination to men to its place in the making of capitalist forms and to its use as a tool by which to separate citizen/subjects (white, propertied, straight) from their Others in any given moment.»
— Jan 03, 2023 03:35AM
