Maxx nails it 👇 I know it is weird to hear that money of all things is queer, because we largely associate it with capitalism and commodification.

From our perspective, participation in governance (including monetary governance) mediates individuated wills from the start...
...rather than being not imposed from the outside. So monetary governance (i.e. numerically coordinated collective caretaking) is always a contestable political terrain, and money's "answerability" to diverse needs goes deeper than the modern nation-state would like to admit.
And so as Maxx says above, the subject-object binary is queered from the start, because it's always already mediated by its location and participation within overlapping (and hence interconnected) regimes of social provisioning.
rather than being imposed*

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