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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Quotes

1950–2009 United States

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (May 2, 1950 – April 12, 2009) was an American professor of English and an author in gender studies, lesbian and gay studies, queer theory and critical theory.

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Seemingly, this society wants its children to know nothing; wants its queer children to conform or (and this is not a figure of speech) die; and wants not to know that it is getting what it wants.

I've heard of many people who claim they'd as soon their children were dead as gay. What it took me a long time to believe is that these people are saying no more than the truth. They even speak for others too delicate to use the cruel words.

One of the things that 'queer' can refer to: the open mesh of possibilities, gaps, overlaps, dissonances and resonances, lapses and excesses of meaning when the constituent elements of anyone's gender, of anyone's sexuality aren't made (or can't be made) to signify monolithically.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.