Communication and Media Studies, Fordham University, New York, New York, USA.
J Homosex. 2023 Jan 2;70(1):168-191. doi: 10.1080/00918369.2022.2103874. Epub 2022 Jul 29.
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 die as a "normal" response to living in societies of domination and violence against queer lives. Through this, I frame suicidal people as agentic beings who play crucial roles in systems of community healing in the face of compulsory vivation. Building on a strengths-over-deficits framing, I engage the disability justice concepts of access intimacy and care webs to explore queer relationality and worldmaking practices that offer alternative modes of living with the desire to die.
基于 LGBTQ+ 人群自杀率的上升，在这篇文章中，我将死亡的欲望本身重新定义为一种酷儿的欲望。这一框架旨在使死亡的欲望去医疗化——从而使它重新政治化，将其视为在统治和暴力对待酷儿生活的社会中生活的一种“正常”反应。通过这种方式，我将自杀者视为具有能动性的个体，他们在面对强制生存时，在社区治疗系统中扮演着至关重要的角色。基于优势而非缺陷的框架，我借鉴残疾正义中获取亲密关系和关怀网络的概念，探索酷儿关系和世界创造实践，为与死亡的欲望共存提供替代性的生活模式。
