Throughout ages, across continents and cultures, gender fluidity and the concept of a third gender consistently reappears: the hijras in India; the Meti in Nepal; the Fa’afafine in Samoa; the ‘two-spirit’ people in North America. They are not the exception, we are. Western tradition has constructed a scientific mythology on gender binarism. And it

Identity is probably the most embedded categorical system within Western culture. This is not something that we can get rid of in a single generation. This is a historical project. But because we’re transitioning from being a society which is organised by sexual difference, I see a rich, rapid increase of practices of de-identification that I