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A review by kgmittty
The Queer Art of Failure by Jack Halberstam
challenging
funny
informative
medium-paced
4.0
I learned a lot, but the writing is very academic in most places which made it a little hard to read. I’m glad I made it through though because the ideas Halberstam introduces here are ones I am very intrigued by and will be thinking about when it comes to any piece of media I enjoy as well as my own life.
“To live is to fail, to bungle, to disappoint, and ultimately to die. Rather than searching for new ways around death and disappointment, the queer art of failure involves the acceptance of the finite… Rather than resisting endings and limits, let us instead revel in and cleave to all our own inevitable fantastic failures.”
“To live is to fail, to bungle, to disappoint, and ultimately to die. Rather than searching for new ways around death and disappointment, the queer art of failure involves the acceptance of the finite… Rather than resisting endings and limits, let us instead revel in and cleave to all our own inevitable fantastic failures.”