--- ### Citation Dinshaw, Carolyn. *How Soon is Now: Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time.* Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2012. --- ### Key ideas >[!Definition] >"Queerness, I maintain in this book. has a temporal dimension -- as anyone knows whose desire has been branded as 'arrested development' or dismissed as 'just a phase' -- and, concomitantly and crucially, as I hope to show, temporal experiences can render you queer. By 'queer' I thus don't mean 'gay' or 'homosexual,' though this song is about gay clubbing in the first instance... In my theorizing of temporality I explore forms of desirous, embodied being that are out of sync with the ordinarily linear measurements of everyday life, that engage with heterogeneous temporalities or that precipitate out of time altogether...queer by virtue of their particular engagements with time" (Dinshaw 2012: 4). --- ### Related Links [[How to Queer the Past Without Sex]]