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A review by girlpdf
Time Slips: Queer Temporalities, Contemporary Performance, and the Hole of History by Jaclyn Pryor
Digestible, broad-ranging, and, refreshingly enough, really, truly queer. I like that Pryor establishes several modes of queer time, including decolonial queer time. It was also deeply painful to read about so many performances that I would kill to watch and will never be able to :(
What hooked me was the analysis of 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq as a temporal crisis, where grief is a stagnancy that straight (profit-based) time cannot afford. Initially, to pair this with the development of homophobia as a repsonse to stagnant boy/childhood seemed a little far-fetched to me, but Pryor made it work seamlessly . The moments in the third chapter where this analysis was linked in with Pryor's own performance, floodlines, (enraged that this was a) many years ago and b) in Texas) an odyssey of grief, transformation, and temporal renegotiation where "what is left reveals what is missing" was a very fulfilling moment in a beautifully-written work.
(Also didn't hurt that Pryor gave trans and lesbian histories the intimate, shared relationship they deserve!)
What hooked me was the analysis of 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq as a temporal crisis, where grief is a stagnancy that straight (profit-based) time cannot afford. Initially, to pair this with the development of homophobia as a repsonse to stagnant boy/childhood seemed a little far-fetched to me, but Pryor made it work seamlessly . The moments in the third chapter where this analysis was linked in with Pryor's own performance, floodlines, (enraged that this was a) many years ago and b) in Texas) an odyssey of grief, transformation, and temporal renegotiation where "what is left reveals what is missing" was a very fulfilling moment in a beautifully-written work.
(Also didn't hurt that Pryor gave trans and lesbian histories the intimate, shared relationship they deserve!)