Living a Feminist Life

basis for the affinity between feminism and transpolitics:

to claim to be one’s own or to have a will of one’s own can be a refusal to be willing to labor or to provide services for others.

Some forms of violence become cultural, and other forms of violence remain individual and idiosyncratic: the some of this distinction is racism.

getting your way.

To be filled with will is to be emptied of thought: as if speaking about injustice, about power, about inequality, is just another way

willfulness is assigned to girls because girls are not supposed to have a will of their own.

A willing girl, who does not appear in this story, is willing to obey, which is to say, she is willing not to have a will of her own.

very judgment of willfulness is a crucial part of the disciplinary apparatus.

feminism is diagnosed as a symptom of failed subjectivity,