{"id":919,"date":"2016-02-18T23:48:34","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T04:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/?p=919"},"modified":"2016-02-18T23:48:34","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T04:48:34","slug":"queer-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/2016\/02\/18\/queer-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Queer Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written on the Body<\/em> really made me think about the perception of time. Since Antiquity, human beings have kept trying to measure time, and it has become materialized through institutionalized rituals, such as obtaining job, marriage, raise of children, retirement\u2026 As a heterosexual girl who grew up in a heterosexual family, I never had the opportunity to think \u201coutside the box\u201d and unconsciously assumed that I was meant to follow \u201cthose paradigmatic markers of life experience \u2013 namely, birth, marriage, reproduction, and death.\u201d (Halberstam, 2) Up until this class, I had never thought that there could be a queer time, which would distinguish itself from the time forged by capitalized society.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe constantly diminishing future creates a new emphasis on the here, the present, the now, and while the threat of no future hovers overhead like a storm cloud, the urgency of being also expands the potential of the moment\u201d (Halberstam, 2)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This quote by Halberstam sums up exactly the spirit of <em>Written on the Body<\/em>. Prior to Louise\u2019s arrival in the narrator\u2019s life, he\/she seemed to be living only \u201con the here, the present, the now\u201d. This is conveyed by the fact that he\/she used to live at the pace of her\/his conquests. There is no mention of his\/her everyday life, just names of people with whom he\/she was in a relationship. As far as the reader knows, the narrator is not suffering from AIDS and is therefore not threatened by \u201cno future\u201d. But Louise is. Indeed, she has cancer, and that alters the narrator\u2019s perception of his\/her relationship with his\/her lover. It seems that the narrator\u2019s time evolves according to the one he\/she loves: the fact that she has little time to live increases the narrator\u2019s love for Louise. Moreover, the ending is ambiguous: whether they are both dead and meeting in Heaven, or they meet again in real life, it seems that the narrator is setting his\/her own time with Louise. Indeed, there seems to be no constraints (\u201creach the corners of the world\u201d Winterson, 190), no socially defined pattern to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written on the Body really made me think about the perception of time. Since Antiquity, human beings have kept trying to measure time, and it has become materialized through institutionalized rituals, such as obtaining job, marriage, raise of children, retirement\u2026 As a heterosexual girl who grew up in a heterosexual family, I never had the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/2016\/02\/18\/queer-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Queer Time<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123782],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919","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\/3019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}