In this article, I argue that queer women – especially cis and trans lesbians – have more in common than contemporary fissures either allow for or acknowledge. Lesbians who recognised their queer sexuality in the 1970s have in common with trans women the shared condition of being, in the words of the 1970s radical feminist Marilyn Frye, ‘spat summarily out of reality’. We also share the experience of refusing to accept this condition. I make this argument by manoeuvring away from questions of gender identity and focusing instead on gender’s ontoformativity: the astonishing, welcome and transformative fact that new social realities are brought into being by new social practices. I turn to experimental writing to explore this matter. Through this medium, the cis lesbian poet Nicole Brossard and the trans lesbian poet Trace Peterson wrote themselves into worlds, languages and social orders that refused to acknowledge their existence. Brossard was writing in 1970s Montreal, Peterson in early twenty-first-century New York, but what they have in common, indeed what radical lesbian theory from the 1970s shares with contemporary theorising by trans women, is the insight that identifying with men is expected. It is in identifying with women that we are most at risk.

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性别的本体形成，或拒绝脱离现实：通过实验写作重拾酷儿女性的团结

在这篇文章中，我认为酷儿女性——尤其是顺式和跨性别女同性恋——比当代的裂痕所允许或承认的有更多的共同点。1970 年代承认自己的同性恋性行为的女同性恋者与跨性别女性的共同点是，用 1970 年代激进的女权主义者玛丽莲·弗莱的话来说，“完全脱离现实”。我们还分享了拒绝接受此条件的经验。我通过回避性别认同的问题，转而关注性别的本体形成性来提出这个论点：新的社会现实是由新的社会实践带来的令人惊讶的、受欢迎的和变革性的事实。我转向实验写作来探索这个问题。通过这个媒介，独联体女同性恋诗人妮可·布罗萨德和跨性别女同性恋诗人特雷斯·彼得森将自己写进了拒绝承认自己存在的世界、语言和社会秩序中。Brossard 写于 1970 年代的蒙特利尔，21 世纪初的纽约彼得森，但他们的共同点，确实是 1970 年代的激进女同性恋理论与当代跨性别女性理论所共有的，是洞察力与男性认同是预期的. 与女性认同是我们面临的最大风险。是与男性认同的洞察力。与女性认同是我们面临的最大风险。是与男性认同的洞察力。与女性认同是我们面临的最大风险。