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🧵2/2 Sara Ahmed: Queer Phenomenology. Orientations, Objects, Others.

For me, the question is not so much finding a queer line but rather asking what our orientation toward queer moments of deviation will be. If the object slips away, if its face becomes inverted, if it looks odd, strange, or out of place, what will we do? If we feel oblique, where will we find support? A queer phenomenology would involve an orientation toward queer, a way of inhabiting the world by giving ‘‘support’’ to those whose lives and loves make them appear oblique, strange, and out of place.

Ahmed, S., 2006, Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others, Duke Univ. Press, Durham NC

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🧵1/2 Sara Ahmed: Queer Phenomenology. Orientations, Objects, Others.

To resist an impulse to make deviation a ground for queer politics is not, then, to say that it does not matter which lines we follow. It does matter. Some lines, as we know, are lines that accumulate privilege and are ‘‘returned’’ by recognition and reward. Other lines are seen as ways out of an ethical life, as deviations from the common good. Despite this, queer is not available as a line that we can follow, and if we took such a line we would perform a certain injustice to those queers whose lives are lived for different points.

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Lookit I just think Sara Ahmed's Queer Phenomenology is something waaaaay more people should be reading, like, close reading.

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