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“Demonisation is the ideological backbone of an unequal society.”
― Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
― Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
“The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born”
― Selections from the Prison Notebooks
― Selections from the Prison Notebooks
“Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all are necessary and true. Irony is about humour and serious play. It is also a rhetorical strategy and a political method, one I would like to see more honoured within socialist-feminism.”
― Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature
― Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature
“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
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“Claiming to be silenced amplifies and circulates reactionary forms of speech by generating outrage. And this manoeuvre works not because reactionary feminists are speaking truth to power and being accused of transphobia, but because they are speaking for power by expressing transphobia.”
― Me, Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism
― Me, Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism
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