note from the collective

“People are different from each other.” — Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

“A rhythm that is not simple relationality or routine antirelationality is established.” — José Esteban Muñoz

Melancholic poetics that trace the very skin of memory, instances of absence awaiting to be named, breathe animacy into private histories. Speculative prose, sketching visceral iterations of imaginary departure from the real, takes these aerial reverberations and latent matters to futures yet to come. Elsewhere, spectral images leveled with bodies becoming otherwise regenerate wounds anew. Think of our brochure as an incomplete archive to dwell in, a user’s manual for transing topologies rendered all to fictive, or a bedside reader that echoes secretive desires in lovers’ whispers and distant utopias…

The que(e)ry Collective is a non-hierarchical undergrad student group that works with queer/feminist theory, practice, and art in collaborative and communal ways. For this issue of que(e)ry, we were looking for and selecting pieces that got us thinking together, feeling together, laughing together, confused together, struggling together, and hopeful together.

We are grateful to the Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender. Neither que(e)ry nor this journal would be possible without their support.

– que(e)ry Collective

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