Anatomical truth and cultural practices

 
Preciado 372: "There is no anatomical truth independent of the cultural and political practices of constrained repetition that lead us toward being men or women."
 
374: "All of them are performative products to which different frames of cultural intelligibility confer various degrees of legitimacy"

> from Paul Preciado's Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era (2008, translated 2013)

> tagged with #performance, #identity, #gender, #body

> created May 8, 2024 at 10:53:56 AM


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