Critical Response VI: Creatures of Habit.

The author presents a critical response to S. Pearl Brilmyer's essay "Queer Rigidity: Habit and the Limits of the Performativity Thesis" published in the Summer 2024 issue. Topics include the author's argument on queer studies' antipathy toward habit as the field's critical habit as claimed in the essay, thoughts on Brilmyer's insistence that the field's critical rigidity arises from its allegiance to the performativity thesis, and views on the metadiscourse of queer theory.