The Work of Mourning for a Queer Future
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This document discusses José Esteban Muñoz's perspective on mourning and queerness. It contains several quotes from Muñoz discussing how writing comes from a place of love, how queerness is an ideal that has not fully arrived, and how survival requires constant mourning. The final quote advocates for preferring life and affirming survival.
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The Work of Mourning for a Queer Future
- 1. THE INEXHAUSTIBLE WORK OF MOURNING JOSÉ ESTEBAN MUÑOZ Stephen Abblitt | La Trobe University | S.Abblitt@latrobe.edu.au
- 2. “Epistolary fictions multiply when there arrives a new crisis of destination.”
- 3. “I write for, I write from, I start writing from: Love. I write out of love. Writing, loving: inseparable. Writing is a gesture of love.”
- 4. “I am wounded, and I find that the wound itself testifies to the fact that I am … given over to the Other in ways that I cannot fully predict or control.”
- 6. “For the queer utopian, the ideal world cannot be reached through the here and now; it must be conjured by crazy, risky, wild leaps into the void.”
- 7. “Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality. Put another way, we are not yet queer.”
- 8. “…no more than a fragment, little bits, morsels, bites…
- 9. “Surviving—that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited. For one does not survive without mourning.”
- 10. “Always prefer life and constantly affirm survival.”