ABSTRACT
This chapter probes the potentials of 'queering' common approaches to political agency and situatedness. It focuses on a vision of solidarity in the 2014 British film Pride as an inroad into modes of being that link queer temporalities. The chapter discusses the position from which demands for justice have been and still are being made. It investigates categories of the self – such as subject/subjectivity, identity, and difference – and introduces students to the pros and cons of employing them in political discourse. The chapter revisits the paradigm of intersectionality, which promised to be a critical tool with which to tackle power and privileged positions as well as the misguided idea that oppression could be safely targeted via one category of marginalization only. It describes the opposite direction by aiming to infuse feminist thinking with queer theory and, in doing so, to enrich the project of queer feminism.
