Miles Jackson:
> Well, I agree that the notion of performativity
helps
> us to understand sexual identity; does Butler really
> disagree with that? I've read most of her stuff,
and > I don't remember her making the claim AN
attributes
> above.
"We cannot simply throw off the identities we have become, and Foucault's call to 'refuse' these identities will certainly be met with resistance." [...] "Called by an injurious name, I come into social being, and because I have a certain inevitable attachment to my existence, because a certain narcissism takes hold of any term that confers existence, I am led to embrace the terms that injure me because they constitute me socially. The self-colonizing trajectory of certain forms of identity politics are symptomatic of this paradoxical embrace of the injurious term. As a further paradox, then, only by occupying - being occupied by - that injurious term can I resist and oppose it, recasting the power that constitutes me as the power I oppose."
- _The Psychic Life of Power_, pages 102 and 104