What does it mean to be a subject—to be a subject of or to be subject to? What does it mean, what does it feel like, to be hailed—interpellated, as some theorists have termed it—as a subject? And what is the relationship between being a subject and having a subjectivity? To understand how subjectivity has been queried, considered, and deployed in thinking and writing in gender and sexuality studies, then, it might be best to simply start with the meaning of the term itself. The etymological root of subjectivity is the recognizable term subject, which is both a noun and a verb; the verb, in English, is one of those that changes meaning slightly depending on the preposition with which it is paired, usually “of” or “to.” To be subject of, then, is to exert a certain organizing force on the world around you. To be subject to, on the other hand, describes the experience of being organized by the energies of something else: a person, an organization, a knowledge structure, and so on. In short, being the subject of or being subject to describes different relationships to power. So if a subject, as an idea, might indicate some sort...