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disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory Volume 5 Reason INCorporated Article 10 4-15-1996 The Faggot's Claim to Name, or Deconstructing the Breeding Game Beth Harris DOI: https://doi.org/10.13023/DISCLOSURE.05.10 Follow this and additional works at: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/disclosure  Part of the Poetry Commons This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License. Recommended Citation Harris, Beth (1996) "The Faggot's Claim to Name, or Deconstructing the Breeding Game," disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory: Vol. 5 , Article 10. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13023/DISCLOSURE.05.10 Available at: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/disclosure/vol5/iss1/10 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory. Questions about the journal can be sent to disclosurejournal@gmail.com 84 Beth Harris The Faggot's Claim to Name, or Deconstructing the Breeding Game by Beth Harris Seattle, Washington On a dismal, Seattle winter day, two women sat far away from each other in the dimly lit Roma Cafe But the harried dyke on a short work break both read the advice from the same sex column 1 and the bedraggled teen on the run 1 Letters inspired by Dan Savage's column in Seattle's The Stranger, December 1994 disClosure 5 (1996): REASON INCorporated Hi, Faggot, (/'he liberated woman addressed the famed gay sex columnist) I am afraid that you have misconstrued sex for modern het womanhood When you call us all "breeders"-it is not true for the conscientious few Yes, I must confess, I am naturally born a het Nonetheless, despite my attraction to the masculine faction, you should not assume I will contribute to the population boom Signed, Het, Yet Childless The Faggot's Claim to Name 85 Dear Het, Yet Childless You are still a breeder in my book Although breeding you forsook When you have sex, you must protect against producing little tykes -unlike the faggots and the dykes Lighten up, Ms. Het embrace the "breeder" name When you write, "Hi, Faggot," I do not complain Although we both clearly know I am not a bundle of sticks Forever, Faggot disClosure 5 (1996): REASON INCorporated 86 Beth Harr is Reading the heated exchange, the dyke thought, I'm neither a het nor childless Though a homo, I can clearly claim the disputed breeder name but to become a mama without a family man, I needed a plan The sperm I got was caught and donated by a generous faggot by Beth Harris January 1, 1994 The homeless youth cried inside-Het or dyke, it made no difference in my plight when I got raped on that night "Old enough to bleed, old enough to breed" Beware-I am bearing more than a child now I'm breeding perpetual rage Next time someone fucks with me they are going to bum , disClosure 5 (1996): REASON INCorporated The Represented and the 'Real' 87 The Represented and the 'Real': Economy, Postmodernity, and PostOrientalist Research An Interview with Timothy Mitchell Department of Politics, New York University Conducted by Katherine Jones, Jennifer Kopf, and Angela Martin disC/osure Editorial Collective Lexington, Kentucky April 16, 1995 This interview was conducted during a visit Timothy Mitchell made to the Uni-versity of Kentucky to give the lecture "Inventing 'The Economy'" as part of the 1995 • Spring Social Theory Lecture Series sponsored by the University's multidisciplinary Committee on Social Theory. In this lecture, Professor Mitchell suggested that the concept of a 'national economy' is a very recent one, which emerged only after the 1930's depression and the widespread collapse of global systems of monetary represen-tation. In their place, according to Mitchell, the concept of 'the economy' emerged as a totality of exchange processes within the boundaries of a fixed nation-state. The notion of 'the economy' as a fixed object was therefore central in emerging discourses of the nation-state as a fixed, bounded, geopolitical unit Further, 'the economy' excluded 'non-economic' processes. Such public/private distinctions helped to maintain and re-create the effect of 'the economy'. In addition to his recent work on 'the economy', Professor Mitchell has also written extensively on related issues. His 1988 book, Colonising Egypt explores the discursive construction of a British colonial rationality in 19th century Egypt Dr. Mitchell has also written on the discourse of 'development' in Egypt and elsewhere, and on defini-tions of'the state' as an object. In this interview, Professor Mitchell discusses his past and ongoing research, methodological issues related to doing 'postorientalist' studies of the Middle East, gen-der and 'development', and Frederick Jameson's view ofpostmodernity. disClosure 5 (1996): REASON INCorporated 

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