One of most rewarding experience I’ve had at college was a group project about homelessness in Carlisle. We spent a day with a “ homeless guide” and at the end of the day we spent the night at the homeless shelter. It might be crazy to relate this experience to queer theory but just as Halberstam does with pop culture, I’m taking something I know very well which was my own experience and relating it to the Halberstam’s queer time. The sentence that I chose to focus on was “Obviously not all gay, lesbian, and transgender people live their lives in radically different ways from their heterosexual counterparts, but part of what has made queerness compelling as a form of self-description in the past decade or so has to do with the way it has the potential to open up new life narratives and alternative relation to time and space (2).” The first part of the sentence is explaining that are gay, lesbian, and transgendered may have to do something things different in life or experience something things different but many experiences they have are the same as heterosexual people. Relating this to my experience just like heterosexual and homosexual individuals don’t live radically different experiences either do homeless and non-homeless people do. Like getting a job both individuals can be equally as qualified, one difference may be that a homeless person in Carlisle has to look at a job relatively close and someone living in an apartment in Carlisle can have a more wide spread job search because they have the means to travel to a far job. The sentence then talks about what Halberstam believes that society recently has found so interesting about queerness, which is the thought of new life narratives and alternative relation to time and space. From this second part, I want to focus on the lens Habersham creates about time. I think that Halberstams understanding of time is a construct of society and how we participate in it is just like a subculture. So if you participate in this subculture differently then someone else, your experience of time will be different. So Halberstam believes that queerness is thought to be outside of societies norms just like having kids before you get married, so these people will have a different understanding of time then someone that is heterosexual or gets married and then has kids. In that sentence there are binary opposites such as gay, lesbian, and transgender and it’s opposite being heterosexual counterparts. This relates to the word we defined dialectic meaning an investigation through reasoned argument, so the argument of the experience of time through these two poles. A repetition I saw was with self-description and life narrative these are two things used to illustrate how an individual has their own experiences. This relates to the word temporality meaning the linear progression of past, present, or future. An individuals life narrative doesn’t have an end goal of marriage or reproduction and then that persons self-description allows them to have a different thought of time then someone who’s self -description allows them to have a life narrative with getting married and having kids at the end of it. Something weird that I notice with this sentence is that she calls queerness compelling. I think its interesting that something that is out of social norm is so compelling, because its like that with homelessness its outside of societies orders but for a policy class our professor used it as a project because it was so interesting to learn about peoples experiences and about the polices we could implement to help homelessness in Carlisle. I took the lens of Halbertams thought about queerness and alternative relations of time to look at what I learned with my experience with the project, just like Halberstam says queerness is outside of societies order and that affects your concept of time, being homeless is having a way of life different which is a threat to social constructs of society so homeless people might have a different understanding of time. I explained how the way we participate in life is like a subculture and that subculture may see life differently. So, someone who goes home to the same big bed every night compared to someone who goes to a different church everyday of the week to sleep on a thin matt are in different subcultures which causes there to have different understandings of time.