@article{Sjöstedt_2019, title={”Längtan efter något som man anar, men inte vet riktigt vad det är ens”: Att läsa obygd queer}, volume={24}, url={https://www.lambdanordica.org/index.php/lambdanordica/article/view/565}, DOI={10.34041/ln.v24.565}, abstractNote={<p>In this article I do a queer reading of my maternal great grandmother’s own notes&nbsp;that she made when she was in her twenties between 1912 and 1918 when she&nbsp;was studying to become a teacher and worked as a teacher in a rural village in the&nbsp;northern inland of Sweden. The reading of my great grandmother’s texts comprises&nbsp;the double analytical act of questioning heteronormativity as a framework for life&nbsp;stories regardless of time and space, and at the same time problematizing what&nbsp;has become normative beliefs about how and where queer life can be lived. There&nbsp;has been an idealization of urban metropolises that emerged as the rooms where&nbsp;queer identities can be lived out. This has created a need to also question the spatial&nbsp;norms of queer identification. This paper contributes with a reading that adds to&nbsp;a feminist willful archive (Ahmed 2017) that can also open for queer readings of&nbsp;unexpected spaces in present time.</p&gt;}, number={1}, journal={lambda nordica}, author={Sjöstedt, Angelika}, year={2019}, month={Jul.}, pages={67-87} }