Herculine Barbin, n.All

Herculine Barbin (n.) in ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠Foucault's romance lives a happy limbo of a non-identity — a world of pleasures beyond sex that ignores the power that built and condemned h/er.

Herculine Barbin (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not an identity but the sexual impossibility of an identity — the scandal lies not in the anatomy but in the disorganized rules.