Sex,Lies & Embodiment
'Phrases I would like to strike from the English language: “speaking my truth” and “my journey.”'
—Katya Zamolodchikova, in conversation with Trixie Mattel, I Like to Watch (2019)
'If gender attributes and acts, the various ways in which a body shows or produces its cultural signification, are performative, then there is no preexisting identity by which an act or attribute might be measured; there would be no true or false, real or distorted acts of gender, and the postulation of a true gender identity would be revealed as a regulatory fiction.'
—Judith Butler, Gender Trouble (London: Routledge, 1999 [1990]), p. 180.