Thinking through some questions I've been grappling with ahead of this discussion on queering commitment tomorrow. (1/n) https://twitter.com/lakshmi9008/status/1283696574879510529

First, given that part of this discussion is prompted by a petition to recognise same-sex marriage in India - How do we describe practices of performing same-sex/ queer marriage that have existed prior to this moment? Can we understand these dissident marriages as lawful? (2/n)

Second, how do we hold love and marriage together in the same frame (as this discussion does), if love often tends to operate outside a frame of social recognition, putting it fundamentally at odds with marriage which requires recognition? (3/n)

Third (and similar to the last point) as far as the idea of "queering commitment" is concerned: is it possible to queer marriage? Is that phrase basically an oxymoron considering the boundlessness, the constantly expanding horizon of what it means to be queer? (4/n)

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