Queer joy is not hierarchical. Queerness is the freedom to belong to yourself and others without societal restriction, without the bonds of natal family, hierarchy, and the state pressing on you. “Queerness’s ecstatic and horizontal temporality is a path and a movement to a greater openness to the world,” José Estaban Muñoz writes.* Queerness is getting to invent the communal structures that best serve your beloveds in real time.
