What I liked was the modesty that underlies Jacobson's antiformalism.

From this viewpoint, transgendered bodies and genders are that outside; and it is precisely by discarding us as “gendertrash” if you will, by stigmatizing us or delegitimating us off the grid as merely “aberrant” or “deviant” or (Virginia Prince here) “defective” or “pathological,” which enables the binary grid to continue to appear as immaculate, uncontaminated, and “natural.”

when they were singing or hosannahing, the noise was wonderful

He looks stern, but he’s just a big pussy-cat really.