“Seemingly, this society wants its children to know nothing; wants its queer children to conform or (and this is not a figure of speech) die; and wants not to know that it is getting what it wants.”

— Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Tendencies (Duke University Press, 1993), p. 3

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