Abstract
Taking into consideration the political practice of queer studies, this work investigates how two memoirs by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore allows us to understand straight temporality and its types of death for LGBTQIA+ people. Centering mainly on theoretical stances by José Esteban Muñoz (2019), Sara Ahmed (2006), and Jack Halberstam (2005), a critical reading of the memoirs highlights how the reproduction of paradigmatic life markers produce some life orientations as possible and correct while others are problems to avoid. At the end of the paper, it is argued that Sycamore’s writings contest and interrogate the structure in place while offering questions for new political movements for sexual and gender dissidents.
Keywords
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore; Queer studies; Temporality