Queer Joyz (2024)
“But there are limits imposed by founding your identity on stories of individual suffering. That individuality is forever bound to unhappiness, and it is purchased at the cost of telling stories about your relations with others: other people, other places, other things. If queer happiness lies in those relations, or rather, in a certain kind of exposure to the possibility of those relations, then its writing will have to find a form to match that exposure. A form of connecting and relating; a form that is the good kind of clingy, lingering on that which sticks us to things; a form in which the self is created by its openness to others.”
From Whatever Happened to Queer Happiness? by Kevin Brazil (2022, Influx Press)