Countersexual Manifesto

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By Paul B. Preciado *13

Published Jan. 18, 2019

Countersexual Manifesto radically challenges theoretical discussions around gender and sexuality. Preciado, a philosopher and transgender activist, asserts that “artifices precedes nature” in the history of sexuality, a concept which he claims permits new forms of systematic sexual emancipation.

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