„What I am proposing here is that border crossings do not occur only across the dominant/dominated dichotomy, but that, equally, there is traffic within cultural formations of the subordinated groups, and that these journeys are not always mediated through the dominant culture(s). … My argument is that they are not `minority´identities, nor they are at […]
Zitat des Tages – Pauline Park
„I reject the assumption that the presence or absence of the penis determines my status as a man or as a woman. While cross-dressers often find me too transsexual to elate to because I live full-time as a woman, transsexuals find me puzzling because I have not pursued hormone therapy or sex reasignment surgery. Even […]
Zitat des Tages – Gloria Anzaldua
„An image is a bridge between evoked emotion and conscious knowledge; words are the cables that hold up the bridge. Images are more direct, more immediate than words, and closer to the unconscious. Picture language precedes thinking in words, the metaphorical mind precedes analytical consciousness.“ In: Gloria Anzaldùa (1999, orig. 1987): Borderlands/ La Frontera. The […]