Queer OptimismA new paradigm for queer theory Michael Snediker offers a much needed counterpoint to queer theoretical discourse, which has long privileged melancholy, self shattering, incoherence, shame, and the death drive. Recovering the forms of positive affect that queer theory has jettisoned, Snediker insists that optimism must itself be taken beyond conventional tropes of hope and futurity and reimagined as necessary for critical engagement. Through fresh,