ABSTRACT
Family time conforms to modernist notions of time, which organise life as a march to and toward events that fulfil normative notions of 'progress' and neoliberal ideals—compliance and performance at school, heterosexual marriage and reproduction, entrance into the workforce and contribution to the corporate state, military service and participation in the work of the nation state. Understanding the constitutive effects of performativity as a 'becoming' requires time. Set against the disappearance and denial of queer lives throughout history, the emergence of discourses on queer time spoke most urgently at the end of the 20th century from within communities ravaged by the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic. Queer futurity is a "necessary mindset" for a means of envisioning and changing systems, ecologies and economies and ways of relating that do not work. Wilfulness is a "standing against" that minoritarian subjects—women, queers, people of color—embrace in their efforts to both survive and to resist.
