foxes in breeches
April 2011
“…I have never heard the word ‘hysteria’ being used in a valorizing way in these progressive circles. Yet there is a revolutionary potential in hysteria. Even in her paralysis, the hysteric exhibits a potential for gestures and desires…A movement of revolt and refusal, a desire for/of the living mother who would be more than a reproductive body in the pay of the polis, a living, loving woman. It is because they want neither to see nor hear that movement that they so despise the hysteric.”
—Luce Irigaray (via throwherinthewater)