Sublime

can't simply reject these four strands because to do so would inadvertently yet automatically enact the dichotomous thinking I want to transform!

The premise underpinning this ideal is that women suffer from an internal “defect,” namely a “confidence gap,” which holds them back in the world of work. Fixing this (supposed) internal barrier in women is constructed as key to their self-transformation and empowerment and to tackling gender inequality in the workplace more broadly.

It was hard to unlearn the usefulness of dichotomies. They made the world so much cleaner. I had defined myself by what I rejected, and these choices often hardened into something that felt political. It was about your sense of the world and what you expected from it.

insecurity

In her stunning 2007 meshing of critical theory, physics, and gender studies, Meeting the Universe Halfway, Barad revisited Bohr and his then-untestable Gedanken-experiments from the standpoint of recent developments in what she calls “experimental metaphysics”—the

Stephen Ramsay’s construct of algorithmic criticism and humanities critical theories, such as feminist and critical race theories,

These are the

I began to realize what I already knew: that patriarchal reasoning goes all the way down, to the letter, to the bone. I had to find ways not to reproduce its grammar in what I said, in what I wrote; in what I did, in who I was.

on multiple levels and in multiple modalities: