Via @Miisaakan in How To Queer The World: Radical Worldbuilding Through Video Games
Adherence to Capitalist Norms require us to stay on a ‘straight’ path throughout life:
“The dominant norms of society instruct us to fall in line and follow a straight path, to move through the world “by not deviating at any point.”
“Quееr subjects, by contrast, often forge their own winding paths through life, “deviating” from the straight path and thereby becoming, in the eyes of heteronormative society, “deviant.””
Bodies are disciplined into following a Normative/Capitalist Life Path:
“… hegemonic straightness attempts to force quееr subjects into line.”
Orientation = Finding our way in the world: “Orientation, whether we conceive of it as orientation in space or seхual orientation, describes “how it is that we come to find our way in a world.””
“Once we leave the starting points of orientation and head off into the world, says Ahmed, we bring new worlds into being by taking certain paths.”
“Yet precisely by cutting a quееr path through the world—one that is nonlinear, full of pivots and meandering turns, and decidedly non-straight—quееr subjects give form to alternate geographies and enact the creation of their own quееr worlds.”
“Moving through the world quееrly itself has the power to rebuild the world.”
“There is no one singular right, clear path through quееr and trans life.”
