Queer and Feminist Futures: The Importance of a Future and Mobilizing Feminist Film in Post-Civil Rights Times

Abstract

This article is concerned with alternate concepts of temporality, especially alternative future imaginings that are more relevant now than ever before. Through conceptualizing time ruptures and intervals, we attempt to dismantle the politics of teleologically mandated linear temporalities, which can operate – if not questioned – as some type of repetition without any actual change which would open up important ways of thinking about potentialities of the new. We attempt to think about time and the future through queer and Deleuzian feminist film theory, specifically the feminist film Born in Flames. We argue that cinema affects us, opens us up to thinking about the potentials of the new, futurity and new ways of connecting (new forms of communities), and therefore holds crucial transformative potential.