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Resistance (n.) can ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠perform its defiance only through embodying the norms of the power it opposes.

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Resistance (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠spawned in part by the powers it opposes — which is not to say it is reducible to them or coopted in advance.

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Resistance (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not an act, but the outcome or product of exposing a norm. Resistance is the reactive undoing of a norm.T2.

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Resistance (n.) confined ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠to the imaginary leaves the father's law intact: feminine resistance is valorized in its specificity and reassuringly disempowered.

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Resistance (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠mired in a paradox, whereby, only by occupying and being occupied by the injurious term placed upon me can I resist and oppose it, recasting the power that constitutes me as the power I oppose.

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