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The Intersectionality of Gnostic Prisons
Incest taboo is used to not only enforce heteronormative family structures, but also to police the boundaries of abledness and to ensure that it is preserved. The prohibition of incest can be understood as a form of compulsory heterosexuality in Adrian Rich's 1980 book "The See rich 1980s" I would add to her account because you don't dare slap down the queen. Add to her account and suggest that the incest taboo works to reinstate enabled and normative cisgender heterosexual family structure. So this is now gender trouble of the incest taboo and its ableist origins. Inmates running the asylum, if we go back to Foucault, is literally the prescription of liberation.