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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

American scholar of queer theory (1950-2009).

Born May 2nd, 1950 in Dayton. [ref]

Died April 12th, 2009 at 58 years old in New York City, Manhattan (breast cancer). [ref]

Occupations
journalist, literary critic, poet, women's rights activist, writer

Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be. Lauren Hutton