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She Has Queer Temporality

June 6, 2024 92 Comments

And is therefore much more special than you:

That’s it, I’m joining Westboro pic.twitter.com/3CFGnrKDyJ

— Katie Herzog (@kittypurrzog) June 5, 2024

In this hour-long podcast, Hannah McElhinney, above, and her equally self-preoccupied associate Rudy Jean Rigg – “teacher and creative” – can be heard blathering at length – and sometimes seemingly at random – about “queer temporality” and “how LGBTQ+ people experience time differently to straight and/or cisgender people.”

Though conscience compels me to warn you, it’s an hour you won’t get back. Indeed, the sheer arse-chafing tedium of it is difficult to put into words.

Among the deep wisdom on offer, this:

I think we’re both going through a significant, um, period in our lives, but I think they are different. Like, you’re talking about babies and, like, moving away and kind of, um, solidifying their family units and things like that. What I’m going through is… I’m kind of here, like, having my own sucky path, but, like, for the most part, like, I’m kind of just chilling, so it’s odd for me cuz it’s, like, I am at the stage where I’m kind of, like, do I want to get married, do I want to, like, you know, like, you know, solidify my family unit in a different way. Like, do I want to get another cat?

This is the rhetorical pattern for much of what follows. There’s no shortage of self-reference, and paying attention to one’s queerness, and much airing of niche woes – the endless agonies of being a “creator,” a “creative,” and an “influencer.” And of course the terrible burden of being so much more complicated and interesting than all those other people. The ones who experience time in a humdrum, heteronormative way.

The whole thing – which I endured, heroically – calls to mind some kind of therapy session for the terminally tedious and inadequate.

We also learn,

There is such a thing as heterochronology.

Is that the chronological experience of heteronormativity through time?

Yeah. It’s like time is heteronormative.

Yeah, well, yeah, well, yeah.

This can all be reduced back to quantum physics.

Yes, and the Patriarchy.

Yeah.

So. Much to chew on.

Or choke on, should you happen to be a physicist.

When not experiencing time differently – and showering the credulous with tales to “validate” and “inspire” – Ms McElhinney and her fellow Bringers Of Arcane Knowledge feel a need to,

pay our respects to the traditional owners and Elders – Past, Present and Emerging – of the lands on which we produce Rainbow History Class. Further to this, we acknowledge the Indigenous peoples, including those who are Two Spirit, Third Gender, Non-binary, or Transgender, around the world whose culture and land was stolen by colonisation.

So, clearly, the rumblings on offer are entirely free of conformity or modish pretension of any kind.

Via Katie Herzog.

The subject of pretentious timekeeping has cropped up here before.

Reading time: 2 min

Written by: David