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every time i edit this i'm like "ok THIS is my favorite column you've ever written" but like bitch this might me

this means so much to me boo but sadly nothing will top the "why is he interviewing a bee expert about bees" one :(

ok yes THAT was my favorite column you've ever written

oh my god i just read the bee column and now i am deceased

there are British bees that are English and quite reserved

Can you please travel back in time and send younger me all of your columns? So many of them are exactly what I wish someone would have said to me in my 20s.

Remember when LGBT theory and politics used to be all about CHALLENGING labels, and finding space for the liminal and uncertain? *sigh*

Labels are there to help us identify and better understand ourselves, by realizing that there are others who share some of our experiences and to realize we are not alone. We SHOULD challenge the labels that society imposes on us, but it can be comforting to have one that fits.

It's not a question of "are labels bad or are labels good?". It's a question of the priorities in our theory and our activism. And, at present, those priorities seem to be built around the notion that genders and sexualities are all a priori traits or qualities of a person…

…waiting to be correctly identified and named. And that once we finally have figured out what all the genders and sexualities are, everything will be fine. We seek a taxonomy of all sexual difference, not understanding that every identity named creates it's own new "not that".

It also seems like priorities have shifted from challenging the ways that cis straight people think about gender and sex and desire, onto simply wanting their same old thinking to include us. For instance, the current dominance of essentialist "born with this gender identity"…

…approaches in trans discourse, at the expense of trans viewpoints that regard gender as a more fluid, social or cultural thing. Anyway, sorry… it's just a pet issue of mine. I know some people who never EVER publicly speak about their gender and sexuality due to not wanting…

…to be forced into the position of naming it one thing or the other. I'll shush now. But I could rant on this subject all day.

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