If we accept that there are sexual and gender norms that condition who will be recognizable and "legible" and who will not, we can begin to see how the "illegible" may form as a group, developing forms of becoming legible to one another, how they are exposed to differential forms of living gender violence, and how this common exposure can become the basis for resistance. To understand, for instance, that they are misrecognized or re­ main unrecognizable precisely, it may be necessary to understand how they exist and persist at the limits of established norms for thinking, embodiment, and even personhood. Are there forms of sexuality for which there is no good vocabulary precisely because the powerful logics that determine how we think about desire, orientation, sexual acts, and pleasures do not allow them to become legible? Is there not a critical demand to rethink our existing vocabularies, or revalorize devalued names and forms of address precisely to open up the norms that limit not only what is think­ able, but the thinkability of gender nonconforming lives?

— Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly by Judith Butler (Page 38)