Manifesto

Okay, there's a lot to be said for the fluidity of identity, but I will be brief. The following is the assignment for today, a manifesto. What's great about it, I truly believe it. I hope it inspires you.

We have policed ourselves into believing the definition of a Sexual Self imposed upon you by the Other – the Powers that Be. But we had forgotten two fundamental truths: Power is EVERYWHERE; and Where there is Power, there is RESISTANCE!

Meet Your resistance: Sex and gender, male and female. Disavow these repressive limitations, these marginalizing concepts of your bodies. They do nothing to envisage aspiration. Therefore, there is no longer – there never was – an obligation to cleanse your Within. We have come from Within to celebrate your diversity Without! We Queers as Folk will blur – NO! Obliterate those supposed lines. Break and remake their daily Implementations of Identity – one no more true or “false” than the last. But they will be Your Own! We will forge our individual representations from the dust of those who have gone before – those ancient Greeks who chose for life to be a work of art. You are that art!

Experience Your Power: Transform your Thinking, Speaking, performing. Be you. Whoever. Whatever. However! You don’t have to be made to go with the status quo. If you are, you fit! You don’t even have to understand it. Wear your pink, your flannel, your size 14 come-fuck-me-pumps. Dawn your drag-of-the-day and emerge knowing that you are. Don’t dream it. Be it!

In exchange for this power, we will be met with resistance. Let it inspire in you the refusal to be defined by that Other. Do not again fall subject to the Borg, that pseudo-race of cybernetic organisms, who claim resistance is futile. Their power has made us productive. Our power is in the being. We will not assimilate. We have only begun to undo gender.

Nough said.

Quote for the day: Don't get caught up in the world; let the world get caught up in you. Erin