Puar, Jasbir

"We must learn to attend to the textures of lived experience."

"The archive reveals the contingency of what appears natural."

"Power operates not just through prohibition but through the production of desire."

"We are bound together by affective ties that exceed language."

"The nation depends on the erasure of histories of violence."

"We must imagine ourselves and our worlds otherwise."

"Temporality is lived differently depending on one's position in systems of power."

"The body tells stories that language cannot articulate."

"We are all caught in the contradictions of our own implication."

"The future requires us to build new forms of collectivity."

"Gratitude is a political practice of acknowledging interdependence."

"We must resist the seduction of homonormativity."

"The queer archive is a repository of impossible lives."

"We are shaped by technologies we did not choose but must navigate."

"The nation manufactures its citizens through disciplines of normality."

"We must develop an ethics adequate to our current catastrophe."

"The body is not transparent to itself or to others."

"We are all complicit in systems we seek to change."

"The future is multiple; it has not yet been determined."

"Affect is the capacity to act and to be acted upon."

"We must learn to live with precarity as a fundamental condition."

"The nation-state is sustained through the violence of forgetting."

"We are bound to those we love by ties of vulnerability."

"The archive is a practice of resistance to official narratives."

"We must imagine kinship differently, queerly, impossibly."

"The future is not about utopia but about transformation."

"Patience is a revolutionary virtue in an age of acceleration."

"We are all shaped by the weight of histories we did not live."

"The body is a document of power relations made flesh."

"We must attend to what remains unsaid in official discourse."