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It is the constitution of witness that makes the marriage; the silence of witness (we don’t speak now, we forever hold our peace) that permits it; the bare, negative, potent but undiscretionary speech act of our physical presence — maybe even especially the presence of those people whom the institution of marriage defines itself by excluding - that ratifies and recruits the legitimacy of its privilege.Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick & Andrew Parker, Performativity and Performance
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