She's just an ordinary person, like everyone, but she articulates herself in that moment so completely".
The authority of woman in language – her ability both to articulate herself and to make herself intelligible – is worlds away from her dispossession in art, the radicalism of her gaze, her struggle with the complicity of her own image as painterly subject and muse.
"People were asking things of her that she wasn't able to articulate for herself," says Wasikowska. "Everybody wanted an explanation as to why she was doing this, and I like that she didn't feel she owed anybody one".
But too often the author seems reluctant to articulate what she herself thinks of these records, or to assess how they've stood up.
Indeed, given that Stone herself, a transsexual, seems capable of articulating an account of self that exceeds and contests the medical model, it is unclear why and how Hausman can deny that resistant transsexual subjectivity is possible.
Rivera's strength lies in the specificity of her prose, beautifully articulating the experience of a young queer person of color learning to represent herself on her own terms for the first time. .
"She is portraying herself as someone who is bound by the rules that conservatives have been articulating for so many years," Mr. Miranda said.
In other words she can understand what is being said but cannot articulate words very well herself.
And yet, at the same time, Hussein is a psychoanalyst and activist, a clear thinker and clearer speaker; she could have articulated all that for herself, without having to muck about with a clipboard and cry afterwards and basically re-enact a Chris Morris sketch, without the pay-off.
She decides - instinctively, and without a moment of self-doubt – that taking the acquisition offer is the wrong thing to do, but she cannot bring herself to articulate her reason to either her best friend, with whom she co-founded the magazine, or to her adoring husband.
