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This article counters and complicates decontextualized, celebratory accounts of queer subjects and cyberspace. The authors explore the significance of communicative media for queer women, with a particular focus on the negotiation of complex identifications, communities, social networks, and knowledge practices. Using a critical, sociocultural approach, the authors make illustrative use of interviews conducted in British Columbia and Alberta that are part of an ongoing research project (www.queerville.ca) that situates media practices in the quotidian. The authors' arguments concerning queer virtualities attend to (im)mobilities across multiple offline and online contexts; complex geographies of un/belonging; a paradoxical relation of intense suturing to, and disavowal of, mediation; as well as the problematics of a "politics of recognition" and of "visibility," at work in sites of subjectification and sociality. It all begins with an insult.-Didier Eribon, Insult and the Making of the Gay SelfWe are in an epoch of simultaneity; we are in an epoch of juxtaposition, the epoch of the near and far, of the side-by-side, of the dispersed. We are at a moment, I believe, when our experience of the world is less that of a long life developing through time than that of a network that connects points and intersects with its own skein.-Michel Foucault, Of Other Spaces

This article takes up the complex project of unthinking neoliberal accounts of a progressive modernity. The authors position their anxieties about an 'after' to queer as an affect modality productive of both an opportunity and an obligation to think critically about the move to delimit historically, and as a gesture to an entirely different futurity, the time when queer, and therefore, gay, were organized in a relation of explicit politicization. The authors interrogate celebratory, modernist readings of millennial queer youth narratives where the potentially democratizing significance of the Internet as a cultural technology is deemed constitutive of mobility, play, and possibilities for a redistribution of rights of recognition, communality, and knowledge in a significant public sphere. Drawing on an analysis of research interviews that is framed as 'anecdotal theory,' the authors discuss four properties of networked publics -searchability, replicability, persistence, and invisible audiences -not uniquely as properties of technological interfaces, but rather as 'technologies of otherness.' Within a modality of critically queer attention, the authors consider the varied and complex precarious mobilities that constitute millennial queer youth narratives.