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Como chamar facatanto aquelaenfiada na frutaquanto aquelaenfiada no peito?como chamar frutatanto o sol polpudo da laranjaquanto a lua doce da lichia?como chamar peitotanto o peso oco do meu coraçãoquanto o peso oco do seu coração? (p. 152)
La ciencia ficción travesti entrega elementos para distinguir la mirada sobre nosotras mismas de las miradas que nos fueron impuestas, violentándonos. La ciencia ficción travesti no impone, no cancela, no grita, no dice qué hacer (p. 16).
Like Wendy in Peter Pan, people find new walls springing up (...): every encounter (…) erects new closets whose fraught and characteristic laws of optics and physics exact from at least gay people new surveys, new calculations, new draughts and requisitions of secrecy or disclosure (p. 10).
She looked and looked at so many of such skins together. And she wanted to vomit. Then she was ashamed of her reaction. Something pulled inside of her. For the rest of her life, she was to regret this moment when she was made to notice differences in human colouring.