“Emotional lives have always been queer lives, in that emotional lives
are rebellious lives, lives situated against normative structures that
dominate over our natural right to express our full humanity. Emotional
lives have always been queer lives in that they continuously question
the structure of heteropatriarchy and its utter disdain for femininity.
The influence, for me, of queer theory on emotional life cannot be
overstated, for it is in the liminal spaces of Halberstam’s and Serano’s
theories that my experience of emotional life finally found concrete
language with which to articulate itself, going against the grain of
normative mythology’s claim that feelings have no knowledge to impart to
us. A subjectivity that allows itself to explore the full spectrum of
human-emotional experience is also a queer subjectivity.”
Me. August. 2012.
Friday, November 23, 2012
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