Cyborg imagery can suggest a way out of the maze of dualisms in which we have explained our bodies and our tools to ourselves.

We require regeneration, not rebirth, and the possibilities for our reconstitution include the utopian dream of the hope for a monstrous world without gender.

Our bodies, our selves; bodies are maps of power and identity.

the intersection of feminist theory and colonial discourse [...] a long history that many "First World" feminists have tried to repress.

body understood as resource of mind

Why should our bodies end at the skin

certain dualisms have been persistent in Western traditions; they have all been systemic to the logics and practices of domination of women, people of color, nature, workers, animals

these troubling dualisms are self/other, mind/body, culture/nature, male/female, civilized/primitive, reality/appearance, whole/part, agent/resource, maker/made, active/passive, right/wrong, truth/illusion, total/partial, God/man.

subverting the structure of desire, the force imagined to generate language and gender, and so subverting the structure and modes of reproduction of "Western" identity

Cyborg politics are the struggle for language and the struggle against perfect communication, against the one code that translates all meaning perfectly.

Sister Outsider (Audre Lorde) hints at the possibility of world survival not because of her innocence but because of her ability to live on the boundaries, to write without the founding myth of original wholeness.

English and Spanish, both conquerors' languages

We have all been colonized by those origin myths.

Cyborg writing is about the power to survive, not on the basis of original innocence, but on the basis of seizing the tools to mark the world that marked them as other.

writing, [the] access to the power to signify