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Oliver is Currently Reading

Oliver Bendorf is currently reading:

For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India

by Anjali Arondekar

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10 hours, 23 min ago

Oliver Bendorf is currently reading:

A Dialogue on Love

by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

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10 hours, 23 min ago

Oliver Bendorf is currently reading:

White Ink: Interviews on Sex, Text, and Politics

by Hélène Cixous

bookshelves: currently-reading, theory, queer-poetics, on-writing, literary-criticism, gender, feminist

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Jan 30, 2012 09:47pm

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Oliver's Recent Updates

Oliver Bendorf added: My Desire for History: Essays in Gay, Community, and Labor History by Allan Berube read in February, 2012	My rating:
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Oliver Bendorf added: The History of Sexuality 1: An Introduction by Michel Foucault read in February, 2012	My rating:
10 hours, 22 min ago
Oliver Bendorf is currently reading: For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India by Anjali Arondekar	My rating:
10 hours, 23 min ago
Oliver Bendorf is currently reading: A Dialogue on Love by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick	My rating:
10 hours, 23 min ago
Oliver Bendorf added: Weetzie Bat (Weetzie Bat, #1) by Francesca Lia Block	My rating:
10 hours, 24 min ago
Oliver Bendorf marked as to-read: Trans Desire/Affective Cyborgs by Micha Cárdenas	My rating:
Feb 04, 2012 06:04pm
Oliver Bendorf marked as to-read: Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel	My rating:
Feb 03, 2012 04:45pm
Oliver Bendorf marked as to-read: Incubation: A Space for Monsters by Bhanu Kapil	My rating:
Feb 03, 2012 03:24pm
Oliver Bendorf marked as to-read: The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers by Bhanu Kapil Rider	My rating:
Feb 03, 2012 03:24pm
Oliver Bendorf marked as to-read: The Scene of Harlem Cabaret: Race, Sexuality, Performance by Shane Vogel	My rating:
Jan 30, 2012 09:48pm

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“I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.”
― Michel Foucault

54 people liked it

“I reached deep in you and pulled out a cardinal which in bright red flew out the window. ”
― Dorothea Lasky, Awe

3 people liked it

“Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.”
― Michel Foucault, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

tags: happiness , optimism , resistance , struggle

12 people liked it

“We name us and then we are lost, tamed
I choose words, more words, to cure the tameness, not the wildness”
― Alice Notley, Mysteries of Small Houses

10 people liked it

“Transition is always a relief. Destination means death to me. If I could figure out a way to remain forever in transition, in the disconnected and unfamiliar, I could remain in a state of perpetual freedom.”
― David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

12 people liked it

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