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This paper discusses instances where subjects recognize persuasive and regulatory authority, flaunt their indifference, their disinterest, their refusal in spite of perceived or real retaliation: “I don’t care”. This is a form of linguistic agency that need not be tied to privilege. Like other studies of “language from below” (BAYNHAM; LEE, 2019), queer refusal documents the lived experiences of language use, vulnerability and struggle. In this way, the paper’s examples invite dialogue with the totalizing practices of racial hegemonies outlined in raciolinguistic inquiry, not to deny hegemony but to suggest that queer refusal names instances where subjects, defined through oppressive practice, dare to break with oppression and enumerate their own alternatives. Este artigo discute casos em que os sujeitos reconhecem autoridade persuasiva e reguladora, exibem sua indiferença, seu desinteresse, sua recusa, apesar de retaliação percebida ou real: “Eu não me importo”. Esta é uma forma de agência linguística que não precisa estar ligada ao privilégio. Como outros estudos de “linguagem vinda de baixo” (BAYNHAM E LEE, 2019), a recusa queer documenta as experiências vividas de uso da linguagem, vulnerabilidade e luta. Desse modo, os exemplos do artigo convidam ao diálogo com as práticas totalizantes de hegemonias raciais delineadas na investigação raciolinguística, não para negar a hegemonia, mas para sugerir que a recusa queer nomeia instâncias em que os sujeitos, definidos por meio da prática opressora, ousam romper com a opressão e enumerar as suas próprias alternativas.

La linguistique queer s’est constituée relativement récemment, mais a très rapidement trouvé sa place parmi les champs académiques qui s’intéressent à l’articulation entre langage, genre et sexualité. De la même manière que les recherches linguistiques sur le genre, la linguistique queer refuse d’aborder les pratiques langagières à travers le prisme de la binarité femme/homme (ou encore à travers un choix réduit d’identités que l’on associe à des pratiques et préférences sexuelles, telles que homo/hétéro). Un des objectifs de la linguistique queer est de révéler les suppositions/idéologies qui amènent les chercheur·euse·s à considérer le genre comme un cadre prédéterminé et figé. Queer linguistics is a relatively recent academic formation, but one that has quickly become firmly embedded in the current conversations about language, gender, and sexuality. As is also the case in language and gender studies (see Coates, this volume), queer linguistics refuses to frame discussions of linguistic practices in terms of an assumed male/female binary (or on a limited set of identities based solely on erotic practices and preferences). Instead, queer linguistics exposes the assumptions that lead researchers to view gender in terms of a predetermined, static framework.