queering
To be a gentle / friendship breaker for S. To be // a candle-lit confetti apology for S.
In a world where queerness is looked at as failure, The Queer Art of Failure allows for many possibilities to make sense of these failures.
If you’ve got a body, in which you’re going to negotiate this life, you have to know how it works.
How did isolation work for those of us who are already quarantined in perpetuity by the cis-heteronormative gaze?
Queerness is a free-flowing identity that embraces anyone, including young children, who step off the assigned binary path.
Queering transcends the confines of symmetry and is a way of looking, of breaking established meaning, of making new meaning, and of being and becoming that offers us the promise of fluidity, flux and freedom.
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.
Like failure, longing is not interested in happy endings – whether of straight or non-heterosexual relations.
My identity unfolded slowly during my postgraduate media studies course, where I was exposed to peers from different socio-economic backgrounds.