Queertext

 

Length: 0:24

 

An image appears of Jackie’s “Queertext Manifesto,” items 42–56. The camera zooms in slowly on the text, which reads as follows:

 

42. Until mutual recognition without control emerges, queertext and The Word cannot converse.

43. We can all be queered. That means you, too.

44. We want you to see beyond the queer, the lesbigaytrans identity charm bracelet, to embrace our sex/text.

45. We're both inside The Word and outside it.

46. The division between The Word and queertext is unbridgeable.

47. We don't want a bridge. We just want to be here.

48. And here.

49. And queer.

50. We are awake. We are everywhere and nowhere.

51. Queertext happens.

52. Queertext is never singular, never democratic, never collective, never solo. We never speak for all queers, even now.

53. And not now.

54. And.

55. not.

56. now.

 

As the image of the page zooms in, we hear two voices, both Jackie’s—one her regular voice and another track technologically altered to sound lower, thicker, and even somewhat sinister. The voices say the following, in overlapping sentences:

 

Yes. Techne. Go forth. Multiply. Or not. This is we and not we. I is another. We are dispersed, and yet we are here and queer.

 

The video ends with Jackie saying, regular voice: “We are everywhere.”