\u201cQueer time and space are useful frameworks for assessing political and cultural change in the late twentieth and early twenty first centuries (both what has changes and what must change). The critical languages that we have developed to try an assess the obstacles to social change have a way of both stymieing our political agendas and alienating nonacademic constituencies.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jack Halberstam\u2019s In a Queer Time and Place<\/em>; pp 4<\/p>\n I believe that this passage is refuting the idea queer time and space is abstract. In contrast, it reveals how queer time and space is tangible. It illustrates queer time and space have the power to influence culture in the late twentieth and early twenty first centuries. \u00a0Thus, it is essential to expand the \u201ccritical languages we have developed\u201d to find a home for all things queer by adopting the terms \u201cqueer time and space\u201d. Queerness does not fit into the box of \u201cnormativity\u201d, and it opposes the conventional forms of identification. Thus, queer time and space has its very own framework with core principles that do not change. Perhaps the time and space can be fluid. However, it will always be quintessentially queer and will refute the \u201cmiddle-class logic of reproductive\u201d mindset. This logic is similar to the philosophical theory regarding the primary cause responsible for the shapeliness of motion in the natural order. This is known as Aristotle\u2019s concept of the unmoved mover for his explanation of God. Like God in Aristotle\u2019s argument, queerness can also exercise its influence on natural beings as their final cause.<\/p>\n In this passage, it is also implied that queerness is not seen as natural. In fact, later in the text, Halberstam analyses western culture. In western culture, time is governed by a woman\u2019s biological clock, the needs of children, and familial ties. For queer time and space to exist there must be an epitome of substance that allows time and space to stay distinctly queer. It is essential to develop a new critical language that represents time, space, and places that are queer. Being queer is more than having physical relations with people of differing identities. It expands past the rainbows and gay best friends. Queerness has its own space and time that is different from the heteronormative way of life. In sum, what I am really trying to say here is that queerness is tangible and can be seen observed in cultural changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cQueer time and space are useful frameworks for assessing political and cultural change in the late twentieth and early twenty first centuries (both what has changes and what must change). The critical languages that we have developed to try an assess the obstacles to social change have a way of both stymieing our political agendas … Continue reading Queer Time and Space<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4992,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169404],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2022-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4992"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}