Sphinx is part of a line of French texts, including works by Monique Wittig and Roland Barthes, that aim to undo the implications and supposed importance of the gender binary, the false constructions imposed on us by the societies we live in. Garréta’s Sphinx is one response to these questions, is one of these spaces. But what if the ways we are told and expected to live in the world don’t correspond with our realities? What if we’re tired of being made to feel humiliated, scared, angry, frustrated, sad when we behave in a way that society has prescribed for our respective genders? What if we need to carve out our own spaces in which we can act and exist in the way that feels the most right, the most true, for us? How and where can we find or create these spaces?Īnne F. The rules meant to govern our existences are determined in part by the gender listed on our birth certificates. We are all told and expected to live in the world in a certain way.
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