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tweet-sized excerpts from the work of transfeminist writer and curator paul b. preciado/a body-device dreaming of somatic communism.
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Angela Davis, bell hooks, Patricia J. Williams, Gloria AnzaldΓΊa, CherrΓ­e Moraga, Gayatri Spivak... were defining projects to decolonize feminism,

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Nothing in reality is less immaterial than the work on which pharmacopornographic capitalism is based; rather than immaterial, we could call it ΓΌbermaterial, supramaterial, technomaterial, or hypermaterial,

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The first time I take part in a drag king workshop is in 1998 at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center on West Thirteenth Street in New York.

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These categories are the map imposed by authority, not the territory of life. But if homosexuality and heterosexuality, intersexuality and transsexuality, do not exist, then who are we? How do we love? Imagine it.

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I don’t write a line without getting hard for her, without thinking that in one moment or other, my sex, my dick, my dildo, my hand, my arm will be able to have something to do with her mouth.

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This summer I stopped believing in love. In romantic love between couples. It wasn’t a gradual change. It happened like a sudden blow: the pattern of my ideas slipped and my desire was changed.

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We’re copyleft users who consider sex hormones free and open biocodes, whose use shouldn’t be regulated by the state or commandeered by pharmaceutical companies.

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Apart from claims coming from the intersex and transsexual movements, late 1980s queer theory represented the first critique of the use of the notion of gender within feminism itself.

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During the medieval period, women were in charge of caring for and healing the body by employing traditional forms of knowledge that were based on the use of herbs in the context of ritualistic practice.

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I wanted to experiment with testosterone. I love its viscosity, the unpredictability of the changes it causes, the intensity of the emotions it provokes forty-eight hours after taking it.

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Talking about queer philosophy means traveling with no guide but an invisible cartography and, in the end, with no fixed program or aim in sight, inventing the Archive.

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We are driving along San Francisco Bay in a car, by the Pacific Ocean. Annie Sprinkle is in the driver’s seat and I am co-pilot, along with her dog, Butch.

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The prosthesis’s borderline condition shows the impossibility of drawing a clear line between 'the natural' and 'the artificial', between 'the body' and 'the machine'.

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Finally, I decided to turn from Saint Augustine to my own life and to dare to think about the very processes of material conversion and body fabrication that were taking place within the gender-queer and trans movement that I was living with.

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Far from its being the creation of a feminist agenda, the notion of gender belongs to the biotechnological discourse that appeared in the US medical and therapeutic industries at the end of the 1940s.