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THE INEXHAUSTIBLE WORK OF MOURNING JOSÉ ESTEBAN MUÑOZ
Stephen Abblitt | La Trobe University | [email protected]
“Epistolary fictions multiply when there arrives a new crisis of destination.”
“I write for, I write from, I start writing from: Love. I write out of love. Writing, loving: inseparable. Writing is a gesture of love.”
“I am wounded, and I find that the wound itself testifies to the fact that I am … given over to the Other in ways that I cannot fully predict or control.”
“For the queer utopian, the ideal world cannot be reached through the here and now; it must be conjured by crazy, risky, wild leaps into the void.”
“Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality. Put another way, we are not yet queer.”
“…no more than a fragment, little bits, morsels, bites…
“Surviving—that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited. For one does not survive without mourning.”
“Always prefer life and constantly affirm survival.”
