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The I (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠neither preceding nor following the process of 'gendering', but emerging only within the matrix of gender relations themselves.

I (n.) (pron.) ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠in quotation marks is still here — bracketed not to lose the person but to think the double sense of 'subjection,' enabling and violating at once.

I (n.) (pron.) ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠can be said only to the extent that I have first been addressed: there is no 'I' behind discourse executing its will, only an 'I' called into being.

I (n.) (pron.) ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠neither precedes nor follows its gendering: subjected to gender but subjectivated by gender, it emerges only within and as the matrix of gender relations.

I (n.) (pron.) ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠used as if it came before its identifications is a grammatical fiction — there is no 'I' prior to its assumption of sex.