Meandering Migration

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Jarrod Hayes argues in Queer Roots for the Diaspora that roots narratives contain the seeds of their own deconstruction. The desire for origins acknowledges the impossibility of returning to them with certainty. Family trees are haunted by the queer others that patrilineal genealogy marginalizes.

Gayatri Gopinath's Impossible Desires theorizes diaspora apart from blood, authenticity, and patrilineal descent. Marginality, displacement, the nonreproductive—these become not failures but possibilities. Queer (un)belonging as positive potential: spaces that undo belonging without destructive erasure.

Both migrating and emigrating. Free choice and necessity leading to the same emotional standpoint. Migration is for the weak. The weak must then come together to overcome.

Continue

• The Khazars — Atil, the grandfather, what was lost
• Diasporism — Kitaj, living in two societies

Or return:

• The name — where it began