"The power of queer desire... is that it opens radical possibilities for love objects, including a piece of plastic trash. Our survival, I believe, depends on this kind of love—on treating objects that our culture considers worthless, garbage, with the reverence and respect that matches their actual human and environmental cost. If humans really could feel and embody the true cost of a piece of plastic garbage, our entire economic system—based on waste and exploitation—would crumble. And that is the kind of radical transformation needed now."
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