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What if the real monsters are not those categorized as sexually “abnormal” and seen as mad or bad but instead are the powerful systems and structures that have imposed such limited ideas of sex and sexuality on all of us over the years, and still do?
seeing the value of labels and holding them lightly.
queer perspectives which call for the elimination of categories can ignore how vital social identities and communalties can be for survival.
we’re all queered by life at some point: rendered non-normative. Instead of turning inwards with shame and failure, we could turn outwards and challenge these messages, recognizing that we’re united in queer failure at chrononormativity.
learning from the margins. Instead of trying to classify and explain marginal sexualities, as sexology has tended to do, what if we recognized the margins as the zone in which the most innovative, critical, and creative thinking around sex often occurs?
acknowledging the ways in which we’re all marginal and queered by life
Unlearning the understandings of sex that hurt us all requires a wider ongoing project of queering and decolonizing our minds and bodies, and dismantling the capitalist and patriarchal systems which uphold these understandings.
