Sublime

And yet, desire consistently purchased at the price of plausible deniability comes at a cost, both to oneself, and to the nature of the relationships or encounters it generates. Unlike cruising, wherein one acknowledges that one is looking for sex in some form, insisting that one is asking for or seeking nothing reifies the tiresome sexist construc

The problem, then, is that seeking transnormativity does very little to actually address or dissipate transphobia. By making people forget that someone is trans, it also means they don’t have to confront the anxiety, fear, or anger that arises when someone destabilizes the binary understanding of gender.

There has been a real sea change in clinical thinking about anorexia over the past two decades. The prevailing view among those who treat it now is that it is a largely heritable condition of the brain rather than a symptom of having an overbearing mother or seeing too many ads featuring thin models.

But women also possessed an organ of the highest biological – and social – value: the uterus. Possession of this organ defined the purpose of women: to bear and raise children. Knowledge about female biology centred around women’s capacity – and duty – to reproduce. Being biologically female defined and constrained what it meant to be a woman. And