A quote by bell hooks

queer politics should be constituted by an embracing of the negative, a rejection of reproductive futurism, the child, even politics altogether.

autism and queerness are implicated in one another, are mutually sustaining—even if at times radically diverging—conceptions of what it means to demi-rhetorically move and defy. Both are conditions of and conditioned on countersocialities; both are modes of being-becoming characterized by a persistent failure to arrive.

As writer and activist Shon Faye puts it, “Queer is about removing labels and replacing them with a question. It is a side eye and a challenge back to mainstream society and politics. It says, ‘I don’t know the answer, but why are you asking the question?’”

have. Self-consciousness about one’s “sexual orientation” keeps the issue of gender central at exactly the moment in human experience when gender really needs to become profoundly peripheral.

I am tender toward identities but suspicious of them.