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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).
“We should not, we must not, blame those who have been silenced or are compliant with their own oppression for not being brave enough. But nor should we end up in a place where talking about the sex and gender of authors is deemed irrelevant”
Many waters cannot quench love, neither floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect. Not to see you when you stand before me. Not to think of you in the little things. […] To choose you out of habit not desire, to pass the flower seller without a thought. […] To say your name without hearing it, to assume it is mine to call.