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178 pages, Paperback
First published September 29, 2020
Fluid, insistant, we refuse to stand still: we slip, we slide.
To exist within a binary system one must assume that our selves are unchangeble, that how we are read in the world must be chosen for us, rather than for us to define-and choose-for ourselves.
With physical movement often restricted, female-identifying people, queer people, Black people invent ways to create space through the rupture. Here, in that disruption, with our collectiva congregation at that trippy and trip-wired crossroad of gender, race and sexuality, one find the power of the glitch.
The idea of <> carries this weapon: gender circumscribes the body, <> it from becoming limitless, from claiming the infinte vast, from realizing its true potential[..]When we gender a body, we are making assumptions about the body's function, its sociopolitical condition, its fixity