IMAGINING QUEER FUTURES BEYOND BOUNDARIES: A NARRATIVE ANALYSIS OF CREATIVE WRITING

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Abstract Scholars have called for “queering aging futures” beyond normative assumptions or scripts (Sandberg & Marshall, 2019), which is well-aligned with queer theory’s Cruising Utopia suggests “cruising ahead” toward a utopian future that not yet possible (Muñoz, 2009). Due to emphasis on form rather than content, narrative analyses enable the reimagining of futures bound by material realities. This study presents analysis 40 pieces creative writing in Bi Women Quarterly (BWQ) examine aging. Authors used stories relationships, activism, and Many incoherent, non-linear, dreamlike omnipotent storytelling narratives, allowing them “cruise” across time versions themselves, imagining were new unscripted. Narrative allowed researchers choices authors made taking agency through storytelling. Findings indicate people are well positioned expectations successful old age.

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عنوان ژورنال: Innovation in Aging

سال: 2022

ISSN: ['2399-5300']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.540