Failure, art, queer
Queer Art of Failure by Judith Halberstam
Notes from Chapter 2, “Dude, where’s my phallus?
Learning always requires forgetting. A loop of input and output into the house of knowledge.
Discussing queer time and queer forgetting as a method of rebuilding social structures beyond heterosexual fantasies of reproduction incribed into the nuclear family unit. Halberstam does not criticise the nuclear family but criticizes the structure of family itself, suggesting we move beyond this “knowing” of the family unit to a queer diversity of relations, households and partnerships. Halberstam suggests that LGBT activism fighting for marriage “equality” is driven by a desire to organise and regulate the disordliness of queer cultures.
Can we promote and magnify this freedom of the queer experience, that is forced to unidentify with a rigid structure of social relations set out for the successful heteros?
Empathy and love for the oppressed heterosexual? Also be brave and stop being hetero 