Queer temporalities of desire in <i>Aftersun</i> : Childhood memory and sonic expression

A significant amount of queer and trans studies creates an opening into dialogue about temporality and its relation to the psycho-social durability of childhood experience. Relatedly, a central project for queer and trans childhood studies has been to show how the experience of subject-formation is constituted vis-a-vis our theories of what is appropriate for children, particularly in relation to desire. This article offers a theory of queer temporality that is informed by the affective experience of dependency on an adult world broken by homophobia and transphobia. Essential to our arguments is engagement with Charlotte Well’s 2022 film, Aftersun.