ABSTRACT

Desire in non-opposition is queer. Queer has its own genealogy, beginnings seeking to orient homosexuality independent of heterosexuality, through anti-object as same, anti-act, anti-theory toward liberation from the theatrical paradigms whereby the materiality of desire emerges via structuring scaffolds. Traversive lines between queer and feminism, feminism and gay studies, gay studies and diffability sexuality to new experiments in non-human sexuality as not animal per se but a kind of theoretical bestiary of fabulated creatures which we both become and with which we consort. The fiction of the sexualized subject is mirrored and unfolded by the fictive of the sexual partner' or object' as primarily an imagined and creative catalyst for unravelling despotic locales of desire. Sexuality is a negotiative moment for which no vocabulary yet exists. In order to think queer any recognition must be a catalyst for passing beyond rather than an affirmation and thus validation of difference added to the taxonomy of sexualities.