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Refusal (n.) of ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠heterosexuality is itself an engagement with, and finally a radical dependence on, the terms it claims to transcend.

Refusal (n.) as ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠Antigone flung it at Creon is the feminine founding negation — the traumatic rupture that masculine reparation and building then try to cover over.

Refusal (n.) to ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠deny is not the same as affirming: "I will not deny my deed" declines the other's language without quite claiming the act.

Refusal (n.) of ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a demand, when it targets the order that makes the demand legible, means departing from the grounds of its validity — far riskier than finding a given demand invalid.

Refusal (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠always loyalty to some other bond, and so also a preservation; every refusal fails, and the refuser becomes the psychic refuse of the refused.

Refusal (n.) to ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠identify, when radical, betrays that an identification has already taken place — made and disavowed, showing up as an overinsistence on the opposite.