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Judith Halberstam has some of the kindest eyes I’ve ever seen. Don’t you think??
Working on a paper about queer time I, of course, discovered this interview. I say “of course” because, of course, it doesn’t help me write my paper at all, but it is, of course, at least, entertaining.
(And yes, there are theories for my lateness, for my paced resistances to futurity, for my lack of reproductive motivations. In that issue of GLQ that I link up there, Elizabeth Freeman basically describes every social interaction I have when I go home and realize that all my cousins and classmates seem to be living in parallel universes. “[W]hen we are away from our cultural context, we often experience our social failures as a sign that we are immature or prematurely aged, that we are too late to the party or, worse, too early.” And isn’t it so true that some of us feel confusingly too old and simultaneously judged for seeming immature or irresponsible. Clearly an issue of a queer temporal legibility, or, as S calls it, “Gay Time.” )
