60 (1/2021), pp. 1–1 The Polish Journal DOI: 10.19205/60.21.4 of Aesthetics Amy Keating * Sticky Aesthetics, Sticky Affect: Connecting through Queer Art Abstract This paper explores how the creative nonfiction writer, T Fleischmann, exemplifies a “queer sense of belonging” throughout the author’s description of encountering a work of art and how it transmits this feeling to the reader. This sense of belonging is an affective feeling co-created through the intertwining elements of queer aesthetics and the encoun- tering subject’s contingent affective history. Keywords Queer Aesthetics Forms, Affect, Queer Temporalities, Embodiment, Autotheory On a short trip to New York City, my companion and I perused a queer activist bookstore. As a queer scholar researching time and embodiment, the title Time is the Thing a Body Moves Through, a book by T. Fleischmann (2019), caught my attention immediately. The book’s contents reflect a growing trend of ‘autotheory’ (Weigman 2020). Written in a similar vein as Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts, Fleischmann’s book narrates personal en- counters with art and art production through both a creative and theoretical lens. Autotheory combines the terms “autobiography” and “theory” while acknowledging the instability of both of these categories (2020, 3). Auto- theoretical work can take on many forms: the nature of its instability makes it difficult, or impossible, to pin it down (2020, 7). Unlike autobiography, many commentators discuss autotheoretical work’s ability to value and pro- duce scholarly and theoretical knowledge through personal experience while being playful in its presentation, illuminating creative writing’s aes- thetic value (2020, 6). * Western University Email: akeatin@uwo.ca