Puar, Jasbir

"Homonationalism is not just about tolerance; it's about the selective inclusion of certain subjects into the national body while excluding others."

"We must ask: who gets to be grievable? Whose life is worthy of mourning?"

"The terrorist figure is constructed through biopolitical processes that mark certain bodies as killable."

"Affect is not just individual; it circulates through populations and shapes political possibilities."

"Queerness offers us a way to think beyond normative temporalities and future trajectories."

"The nation-state promises security, but often delivers violence to those it claims to protect."

"We must attend to the mundane violences that structure everyday life."

"Animality and humanity are not fixed categories but constantly negotiated boundaries."

"The right to be lazy is a political act in a culture obsessed with productivity."

"We live in times where love itself becomes a site of political struggle."

"Assemblage theory helps us understand how disparate elements come together to form meaning."

"The body is not a private possession but a site of social inscription."

"Debility challenges us to rethink what counts as ability and productivity."

"Racialization is a process, not a fixed identity; it happens through repeated performances."

"We must be suspicious of narratives that promise liberation through consumption."

"The family form itself is a technology of control and normalization."

"To imagine otherwise is to already begin the work of transformation."

"Precarity is not a condition affecting only some; it structures all life under neoliberalism."

"The archive reveals what was deemed worth remembering and what was allowed to be forgotten."

"Futurity is not a promise but a site of contestation."

"Gender is performed through repetitive citation of norms, yet each citation contains possibility for subversion."

"The nation demands we grieve some deaths but not others; this is an act of power."

"We cannot separate pleasure from politics; they are always entangled."

"The figure of the immigrant is simultaneously desired and disposable."

"Temporality itself is a terrain of struggle and contestation."

"Survival is not just biological; it is always relational and political."

"The concept of minority suggests smallness; we must think beyond such economistic framings."

"To be queer is to insist on the possibility of different futures."

"Debt is not just financial; it structures our relationships to the state and to one another."

"The sovereign subject is an illusion; we are always dependent, always relational."