Introduction / Bronwyn Davies -- An account of oneself / Judith Butler -- Forgiving, given over, given away : response to Judith Butler's presentation / Fiona Jenkins -- Passionately attached : academic subjects of desire / Eva Bendix Petersen -- Found/ wanting and becoming/ undone : a response to Eva Bendix Petersen / Sheridan Linnell -- Sissy boy melancholy and the educational possibilities of incoherence / David McInnes -- A dialogue on "becoming sissy" / Cristyn Davies -- Words that matter : reading the performativity of humanity through Butler and Blanchot / Linnell Secomb -- Sustaining language/existing threats : resistance and rhetoric in Australian refugee discourses / Susanne Gannon & Sue Saltmarsh -- "Bringing the elsewhere home" : drag-kids and queer belongings / Affrica Taylor -- Dressing up and growing up : rehearsals on the threshold of intelligibility / Jonathan Bollen.