Confused by the spectacle around me

- Allen Ginsberg

A photograph

Shows you in a London

room; books, a painting,

your smile

- James Schuyler

Roland Barthes wrote that the mark of the utopian is the quotidian.

- Jose Muñoz in Cruising Utopia, 2009

I suggest that holding queerness in a sort of ontologically humble state, under

a conceptual grid in which we do not claim to always already know queerness in the world, potentially staves off the ossifying effects of neoliberal

ideology and the degradation of politics brought about by representations

of queerness in contemporary popular culture.

- Jose Muñoz in Cruising Utopia, 2009

the thing-that-is-not-yet-imagined

- alain badiou

Queerness is not quite here; it is, 

in the language of Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, a potentiality.

- Jose Muñoz in Cruising Utopia, 2009

How curious, complex, the touch, this subtle art

- Renee Vivien

I will plant companionship thick as trees.

- Walt Whitman

I’ve forgotten the way a body feels.

I’ve forgotten the way my body 

         in its loneliest midnights             didn’t devour the light  that touched it.

- Moni Garcia

Freud intuiu que o processo civilizador, que tem muitos ganhos, poderia acabar domesticando tanto o ser humano que ele perderia até mesmo o interesse pelo sexo.

- Luiz Felipe Pondé em Linhas Cruzadas, 04/06/2026

Todo processo social, político e histórico é dialético.

- Luiz Felipe Pondé em Linhas Cruzadas, 04/06/2026

no volume máximo

We have poetry

so we do not die of history.

- Meena Alexander

Neither binary nor reconstructed.

What was the word for hybrid?

Or nature’s desire for difference.

For particularity.

Because nature desires the impermissible.

And abhors the prescriptive.

- Alexis De Veaux

I am she: I am he

- Adrienne Rich