In an 1981 interview titled Friendship as a Way of Life, Paul-Michel Foucault, in discussing the possibilities of sexual identity, queried: ‘How can a relational system be reached through sexual practices? Is it possible to create a homosexual mode of life? … To be “gay,” I think, is not to identify with the psychological traits and the visible masks of the homosexual, but to try to define and develop a way of life.’
Speaker Kaisha Kapadia’s focus on the elasticity of Queer Time was compellingly driven and ambitious, calling into question the phenomenological timeline and its placement for queer subjects as one that is divorced from the patrilineal status quo. With a specific focus on chronicling the trans experience and how its varied make-up compels connection, her group explored the restraint of linear time within an institutional and heterosexual context through clothing, the division of gender, transformation and the reality of housing a trans body. Kapadia’s group discussion was grounded in hope.
