Queering as a Way of Life
Queering is not about being queer but about doing queer – about going beyond binaries of gender and sexuality, questioning accepted perspectives, and challenging and upending normative ways of being in the world.
If you’ve got a body, in which you’re going to negotiate this life, you have to know how it works.
Like failure, longing is not interested in happy endings – whether of straight or non-heterosexual relations.
How did isolation work for those of us who are already quarantined in perpetuity by the cis-heteronormative gaze?
My identity unfolded slowly during my postgraduate media studies course, where I was exposed to peers from different socio-economic backgrounds.
Queerness is a free-flowing identity that embraces anyone, including young children, who step off the assigned binary path.
To be a gentle / friendship breaker for S. To be // a candle-lit confetti apology for S.
पूरे देश में ऐसे कई क्वीयर लोग होंगे जो अपनी ‘मातृभाषा’ में अपनी क्वीयर पहचान को एक नाम देने में नाकामयाब रहे हैं।
हम धीरे-धीरे अपनी शर्म, असहजता, और ‘हेटेरोनॉर्मेटिव’ मानसिकता से ऊपर उठने लगे ऐसी कई सारी कृतियों का विश्लेषण करते हुए, जो न तो वात्स्यायन का ‘कामसूत्र’ थे और न ही यौनिकता पर फ़ूको की समीक्षा।
Sexuality makes me think of an erotic adventure. Something that helps us be alive to the world around us, and to life around us.