Looman Nika, Rahbari Ladan, De Graeve Katrien
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
J Women Aging. 2025 Mar-Apr;37(2):87-99. doi: 10.1080/08952841.2024.2428891. Epub 2024 Dec 9.
In this paper, we explore queer temporalities in relation to queer women and non-binary people's sexuality later in life. Drawing on 30 interviews with 32 queer women and non-binary people aged 49-72 about sexuality and intimacy in later life, we highlight the participants' stories about the instability and non-linearity of sexuality across the life course. First, we examine how our participants narrated later-life changes in their sexual subjectivity and how the assumption of compulsory (hetero)sexuality manifests in the participants' stories about the unfolding of their sexual identities over the life course. We then analyze the compulsory non-sexuality imposed on women as they grow older. Finally, we explore the potential of reinterpreting sexuality in later life to destabilize pervasive normative notions of sexuality by analyzing the bodily changes the participants described. Rather than eradicating difference, such an analysis of later-life sexuality and queer temporality opens up the possibility of affirming changing desires and pleasures and acknowledging the body's agency in shaping later-life sexuality.
在本文中，我们探讨了与老年同性恋女性和非二元性别人士的性取向相关的酷儿时间性。基于对32名年龄在49至72岁之间的同性恋女性和非二元性别人士进行的30次关于晚年性取向和亲密关系的访谈，我们着重介绍了参与者关于一生中性取向的不稳定性和非线性的故事。首先，我们研究参与者如何叙述其性主体性在晚年的变化，以及强制性（异性）性取向的假设如何在参与者关于其性身份在一生中展开的故事中体现。然后，我们分析随着女性年龄增长而强加于她们的强制性无性取向。最后，我们通过分析参与者所描述的身体变化，探索重新诠释晚年性取向以动摇普遍存在的规范性性观念的可能性。对晚年性取向和酷儿时间性的这种分析并非消除差异，而是开启了肯定不断变化的欲望和愉悦，并承认身体在塑造晚年性取向中的能动性的可能性。
