Ever since, or so they say, language was liberatedʺas if we women had always been strange animals unequipped with the faculty of speech and then weœd suddenly learned to talk; who knows why the representatives of the old sexual regime have been nervous, so nervous that theyœre the ones who are now being left at a loss for words. Perhaps thatœs why the lords of the colonial patriarchy have turned to their book of necropolitical history for the insult they always have most readily at handwhat a curious proximityso they can hurl it into our faces: Nazi!.