fuck yeah theorists

let's try and unthink what we mean by the term 'theorist.'

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Try standing at a party of queer friends and charting all the histories, sexual and nonsexual, among the people in the room. (In some circles this is a common party sport already). You will realize that only a fine and rapidly shifting line separates sexual culture from many other relations of durability and care. The impoverished vocabulary of straight culture tells us that people should either be husbands and wives or (nonsexual) friends. Marriage marks that line. It is not the way many queers live. If there is such a thing as a gay way of life, it consists in these relations, a welter of intimacies outside the framework of professions and institutions and ordinary social obligations … Queers should be insisting on teaching these lessons”.

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Michael Warner (1999) The Trouble with Normal (via bodkins)

i don’t actually want to take on the task of teaching people how to define and/or expand their language and experiences concerning relationships, connections, and bonds but i like this quote. it makes me think of how intentional i have become with my time, friendship, love, care, and loyalties. 

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    Reminds me of this, which I really like: http://tranarchism.com/2011/07/07/what-queerness-means-to-me/
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    Thinking about this a lot atm
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