I'm thinking of criticisms of how queer theology/theory’s ideas of unravelling identity has damaging effects in the lives of those for whom identity is formative and in practicality, have everything to do with how people live.
In considering suggestions that identity is not given, but made, I think of how this idea might play with the “born this way” narrative. I think each perspective may effectively erase the other in ways that oppress particular experiences of the world. The “born this way” narrative is a powerful one that combats harmful worldviews that oppress LGBTQ people, but it also erases experiences of identity that are more creative or consciously self-directed and equally as important to those who hold them. The reverse is also true. I also share in the criticism that queer theologizing and theorizing that is not carefully and intentionally done can have the effect of obscuring oppressive forces and thereby reinforcing them. Goss calls for solidarity, but I wonder how that solidarity plays out if part of the work of queering the world is to upturn forms/categories of identity that are ways we discern and call out oppression.
Also, in considering the call for a heuristic narrative, I wonder the degree to which queer thinking resists narrative...
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