EVIDENCE
- “In Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity, José Esteban Muñoz writes, ‘The key to queering evidence, and by that I mean the ways in which we prove queerness and read queerness, is by suturing it to the concept of ephemera. Think of ephemera as a trace, the remains, the things that are left, hanging in the air like a rumor’” (225)
- In the Dream House, Carmen Maria Machado
- "When the body goes, memory resides in the molecules about us" (10).
- "Ostensibly, in search of my mother's history, it was my own buried remains I sought. But how do you dig up amnesia?" (180)
- Native Country of the Heart, Cherrie Moraga
- "Typical of the way my father juggled his public appearance and private reality, the evidence is simultaneously hidden and revealed" (101)
- Fun Home, Alison Bechdel
- “Emily Hamer writes….‘We cannot see electricity but we know that electricity exists because electricity is the best explanation of why moving a light switch leads to the illumination of a light bulb”
- My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, Jenn Shapland
- "No love exists in a vacuum, no matter how much it feels like it does. It is filtered by all the loves we've ever read about, witnessed, watched, lived. Its definition is given by use (to nod at Wittgenstein). Love changes in each phase of a relationship, each day, even. As we, too, change constantly. Nor can love be proven. It's more complicated, harder to see than a ring, a marriage license, a description of any physical encounter" (169)
- My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, Jenn Shapland
