pink-army

If a lot of queer energy, say around adolescence, goes into what Barthes calls ‘le vouloir-etre-intelligent” (as in ‘If I have to be miserable, at least let me be brainier than everybody else’), accounting in large part for paranoia’s enormous prestige as the very signature of smartness (a smartness that smarts), a lot of queer energy, later on, goes into…practices aimed at taking the terror out of error, at making the making of mistakes sexy, creative, even cognitively powerful. Doesn’t reading queer mean learning, among other things, that mistakes can be good rather than bad surprises?