Claire Finch lit “Baise-Moi Judith” // Spielact

Literature seemed too serious so I began a game where I wrote in the voice of the democratic theorist Wendy Brown, the real-life girlfriend of the gender philosopher Judith Butler. I wanted a game that refused all the authority in supposedly smart and good writing, and I wanted to write about queer sex because I couldn’t find enough nonbinary dyke sex writing in the books that I knew, and I wanted to play with language until it had the power to reimagine an apocalyptic now. The game became a text that I perform and replay, narrating around gossip, feeling, and democratic theory.