Puar, Jasbir

"The right to be human is a political demand, not a given."

"Temporality is not neutral; it is always structured by power."

"We must imagine forms of flourishing that exceed consumer capitalism."

"The nation-state produces certain subjects as killable and others as grievable."

"Debility invites us to imagine a world organized around care rather than productivity."

"The body is political; how it moves through space is a matter of power."

"We live in an age of what I call 'homonational inclusion' that masks deeper hierarchies."

"Critique must be paired with vision; we must dream otherwise."

"The family is where the state enters the most intimate domains of our lives."

"To survive is to resist; survival itself is a political act."

"The archive produces the possibility of intelligibility and recognition."

"We must develop what I call a 'phenomenology of the bind' to understand constraint."

"Affect is not individual property; it circulates and sticks to bodies."

"The right to rest is a form of resistance in a culture of endless productivity."

"Nationhood is performed; it is not a deep truth but a repeated enactment."

"We must question the temporal logics that structure which futures appear possible."

"Kinship is not natural; it is made through practice and commitment."

"The sovereign individual is a fiction; we are always already collective."

"We must imagine pedagogies that teach us to live otherwise."

"The figure of the immigrant contains the anxieties and desires of the nation itself."

"To be alive is to be in relation; isolation is itself a form of violence."

"The archive shapes what appears as historical truth and what is relegated to forgetting."

"We must develop new vocabularies for describing forms of life that exceed recognition."

"Pleasure is political; to claim the right to it is to refuse the asceticism demanded of us."

"The nation constructs some subjects as worthy of protection and others as disposable."

"We cannot separate love from power; they are always entangled."

"Temporality is a domain of political struggle; we must fight for the right to different futures."

"The body is not a natural given but a site of inscription and possibility."

"We must imagine forms of care that exceed the heteronormative family structure."

"The right to be properly grieved is a demand for recognition and dignity."