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Rightfully she should have been fearful of life. Instead she was recklessly bold.

Zadie Smith • Swing Time: A Novel

Fealty to kin, actual and imagined, and the protection of them, possible or not, were their father’s pride, his strongest instinct, and his chief source of satisfaction, frustration, and anxiety.

Marilynne Robinson • Home (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel

emotional investment of the individual fan and the relationship between a fan's investment in her fannish objects of desire and her psychological and cultural identity construction.

Kristina Busse • Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays

queer temporalities are extensive,

Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality

Fierce Attachments.

David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

bumbling

Jack Halberstam • The Queer Art of Failure (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)

disputatious

Lillian Faderman • The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle

capable of making a larger statement about the value of these marginalized populations, thereby presenting a challenge to mainstream heterosexist culture:

Our “paranoia” indexes the ongoing imprinting of racialized microaggressions that produce powerful speculative fears about the effects racial difference can have not only on one's chances for getting laid but for more ontologically essential longings such as being wanted or loved.