Queering as a Way of Life
Queering to me is thinking, being, living and loving outside societal norms.
To queer something is to disrupt normative frameworks, to imagine and create new modes of being (Pirani & Daskalopoulou, 2022)….
Queering is not about being queer but about doing queer – about going beyond binaries of gender and sexuality, questioning accepted perspectives, and challenging and upending normative ways of being in the world.
Parenting is an odd space. It comes chock full of all kinds of normative strictures and regulations.
Like failure, longing is not interested in happy endings – whether of straight or non-heterosexual relations.
My identity unfolded slowly during my postgraduate media studies course, where I was exposed to peers from different socio-economic backgrounds.