Queerness

For this entry I am not going to write 500 words or write in a typical format. I am going to answer the question what is queerness. Queerness is so many things; here are a few.

Queerness Is…

Queerness is Pariah Status.

Queerness is Outsiderhood.

Queerness is Marginality. It is taking up space in Marginality. It is not attempting to move from margin to center. It is moving into the margins and taking up space there and joy there.

Queerness is Otherness. It is delight in otherness. It is pain in Otherness. It is joy in Otherness. It is suffering in Otherness. It is being and inter-being in Otherness.

Queerness is personal struggle. Queerness is political struggle.

Queerness is as queerness does.

Queerness is resistance to regimes of normalcy. Queerness is anti-heteronormative. Queerness is anti-cisnormative.

Queerness is Pride. Queerness is Shame.

Queerness is affect. It is emotion. It is hyperbole. It is unrepentant feeling.

Queerness is fierce, ferocious and fabulous.

Queernes is flaming, on fire and incendiary.

Queerness is loneliness, isolation, desolation. Queerness is being left in forgotten land.

Queerness is sadness, depression, melancholia.

Queerness is exhilaration, bedazzlement and spectacularity.

Queerness is the perfomative. Queerness is play-acting. Queerness is realness.

Queerness is being spell-bound.

Queerness is cutting through the mazes.

Queerness is rage, anger and hot temperedness.

Queerness is action, agency and revolution.

Queerness is love, always love.