Highlighting the silencing of same-sex desire that marked both the early days of the AIDS crisis and the Pulse nightclub massacre, this chapter presents an overview of the monograph’s main contention: that such silencing continues, in both overt and covert manners, within a disciplined, Western academic sphere. Taking the recent relationship between ethnomusicology and queerness as meriting not celebration but scrutiny, it is argued that both disciplinary sites are undergirded by a gendered ‘metaepisteme’ driven by a masculinity indissolubly linked to a monologic, Eurocentric, exploitive coloniality. Ultimately, it is the embracing of ‘negative’ emotions and an affectively motivated future—marked, in part, by a self-silencing—that offer the possibility of a truly dialogic, equitable, postdisciplinary future for explorations of sound, music, sex/uality, and other as-yet unknowable/unnamed sites of inquiry.