Queer subjects of intimate exclusion

An object dialogueAt once expansive and generous, Queer objects to the rescue: Intimacy and citizenship in Kenya exemplifies the kind of scholarship that invites extension.My acceptance of this invitation involves two framing decisions.First, I focus on only three topics: emotion, time, and politics.Second, I place these primarily in conversation with my own work, weaving in a third interlocutor in the final section.While informed by dictates of scope and concision, these framing decisions represent a genre move.To wit: this is not a book review or even commentary, but what we might term a "scholarly dialogue."Such a genre is uncommon-perhaps its closest analogue is the transcribed interview, which de-emphasizes citation.I employ this genre to build on the insights of Queer objects to the rescue, suggesting further avenues of inquiry. Political heterosexismMeiu frames the project of Queer objects to the rescue as follows:In the past two decades, political homophobia, a tactic of power deployed by leaders, elites, and their supporters across the world, has "gone modular," Michael J. Bosia and Meredith L. Weiss (2013: 6) argue, "being imposed in a consistent way across diverse contexts."However, for political homophobia to do the work of power across these contexts, it must also resonate with local fears, anxieties, and aspirations.In other words, it has to (be made to) become meaningful.(p.