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7 years, 9 months ago

what do we need to do to gender

Our ability to perform vasectomies, mastectomies, HRT-therapy for women passing through menopause, precisely in order to make people safer, or because they want the procedures, is a fantastic use of technology. The fact that using the same technology to improve transgender lives is seen differently…

—p.68 Salvage #5: Contractions Making and Getting Made: Towards a Cyborg Transfeminism (61) missing author
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you cannot choose what falls away topic/growing-older

[...] Ellen had said, 'You're past thirty,' and now for the second time in my life I felt dizzyingly untethered, but whereas when I first moved to London that sensation was buoyed by the expectation of long-dreamed-of experience and ballasted with the deep resources of youth, now I had learned that…

—p.41 Available Light (7) missing author
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you cannot choose what falls away topic/growing-older

[...] Ellen had said, 'You're past thirty,' and now for the second time in my life I felt dizzyingly untethered, but whereas when I first moved to London that sensation was buoyed by the expectation of long-dreamed-of experience and ballasted with the deep resources of youth, now I had learned that…

—p.41 Available Light (7) missing author
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the limits of the freedom I had found

Slowly, I began to realise the limits of the freedom I had found in London. Discovering safe enclaves, I had seen safety, but not that they remained enclaves. [...]

—p.13 Available Light (7) missing author
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that's not a promise, that's a threat

[...] Although one should be very careful about the word “reform.” We don’t call what Hitler did reform. Reform has a nice feel about it. It’s supposed to make things better. So we should never use the word. We should talk about changes. The same with “promise.” Every article you read in the paper …

—p.143 Class Warfare: Interviews with David Barsamian Take from the Needy and Give to the Greedy (113) by Noam Chomsky