Revisiting this incredibly thought provoking peice (www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....) ahead of our NetECR LGBTQ+ suicide reading group. I am really taken, yet again, by the bringing together of queer intimacies & queer worldmaking for liveability. Really interested to hear what others thought!
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Queering the Desire to Die: Access Intimacy as Worldmaking for Survival
Based on heightened suicide rates of LGBTQ+ people, in this essay I reclaim the desire to die as a queer desire in itself. This framework aims to demedicalize—and thus re-politicize—the desire to d...