I introduced the idea of “complaint as a queer method,” in my conclusion.
In the conclusion to their conclusion, they write about how they “moved something,” how “things are no longer as they were.” To move something within institutions can be to move so much. I am grateful that they, Leila Whitley, Tiffany Page, Alice Corble, with support from Heidi Hasbrouck, Chryssa Sdrolia and others, wrote one of the two conclusions of the book about the work they began as students. The students I worked with became my complaint collective. I was inspired to do the research by my own experience of supporting students who made a collective complaint about sexual harassment. In my recent book Complaint! I thus describe complaint as counter-institutional work to create spaces within institutions we so often end up working against them. We have queer programmes, spaces, events not just because they are nice things to have, though they are that, what a relief, but because we need them to survive institutions that are not built for us. When I think of complaint as a queer method, I am pointing to this history of how we had to fight for room and how by taking up that fight, we became each other’s resources. And so, we need each other: we need to become each other’s resources. But that fight can also be just damn hard when you have to fight for an existence you can end up feeling fighting is your existence. A fight can be how we acquire wisdom: we know so much from trying to transform the worlds that do not accommodate us. You might have to fight to find a safe path through life, a way of progressing, of getting through, without having to give up yourself or your desires. Kelly, what follows is somehow so much more than that.You might have a fight on your hands.* You might have to fight for room, room to be, room to do, room to do your work without being questioned or being put under surveillance.
Though his "trapped in the closet" introduction hints at a very specific kind of story perhaps referencing R.
This shit is stacked with plot twists not even the most frantic of soap operas could match. Though the unofficially dubbed epic "Tina and the Gucci Flip-Flop" Twitter novella from was initially picked up by BuzzFeed shortly before all this holiday nonsense started invading our timelines, the near-Zola level storytelling mastery is making the rounds once again in a very big way, and for good reason. In Zola’s wake, a wide variety of additional Twitter stories started to emerge, though few seemed capable of striking the same universal chord of nail-biting engagement.
Zola’s Showgirls-esque Twitter story temporarily pushed the internet off the deep end earlier this year, miraculously summoning the powers of expert narrative structure and an ingeniously blurred line between fact and fiction that’s still making waves months later.
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