Puar, Jasbir

"Shame circulates through populations and shapes possibilities for action and recognition."

"The archive is never neutral; it is always an act of power and selection."

"We must develop what I call a 'queer pedagogy' that teaches otherwise."

"The right to the city is a demand for belonging in spaces that exclude us."

"Disability is not lack but difference; it teaches us to think the world otherwise."

"The nation-state is a recent invention, and it can be otherwise."

"To survive under precarity requires forms of kinship and care that exceed the heteronormative family."

"The figure of the terrorist is always racialized and always gendered."

"Critique alone is not sufficient; we must imagine and enact alternatives."

"The body is a site of both vulnerability and power."

"We live in an era of managed multiculturalism that allows difference while maintaining hierarchies."

"The future is not given; it must be struggled for and imagined into being."

"Love and violence are not opposites; they often coexist in the same gesture."

"The archive tells us what was deemed grievable, legible, recognizable in a particular moment."

"Crip time challenges the temporal impositions of neoliberal capitalism."

"We must think about the political economy of emotion and affect."

"The right to fail is a form of freedom in a world obsessed with success."

"Citizenship is not a status but a practice; it is something we do."

"The heteronormative family is presented as natural, but it is a relatively recent and contingent form."

"To be political is to insist on the right to a future."

"The nation depends on forgetting; it cannot afford to remember all its violences."

"We must develop forms of knowledge that exceed the academy's boundaries."

"The figure of the homonational subject shows how LGBTQ+ inclusion can coexist with imperialist violence."

"Precarity teaches us that we are all always already dependent on others."

"The body keeps the score; trauma is not individual but collective and historical."

"We must ask: what publics do we want to imagine into being?"

"The concept of gender is a technology of power, but it is also a site of resistance."

"Survival under conditions of precarity requires what I call 'survivor intimacy.'"

"The archive is a political practice; it decides who gets remembered."

"We cannot think about sexuality apart from colonialism and empire."