The Promise of Happiness: Unhappy ****** and Melancholic migrants

Sara Ahmed

• First bestselling lesbian pulp not allowed to have happy ending. (Spring Fire). 
• Censorship (unhappy ending) allowed lesbian pulp to be published. 
• The good life: represented hetrosexual ideal. Deviat from script, threatens happiness.
• Other people's happiness depends on your happiness. Force people to be happy. 
• E.g. straight marraige, gays have to approximate signs of happiness and minimise signs of queerness. 
• Important tell stories of queen happiness, challenge assuption it is a sad life.
• Unhappy as you are attributed as the case of unhappiness. 
• Freud: Patient happy with homosexuality, just didn't want her homosexuality to upset her parents. 
• The Well of Lonliness: Homosexual happiness seen as wrong. Exlusion of some people's happiness for the happiness of others.
• Lost and delirious: Tori caught being gay, make mother happy, embodies straightness. 
• If these walls could talk 2: Woman can't grieve her lover because society doesn't regonise her. 
• If these walls could talk show the pain of not being regonised (house couple shared taken from her).
• Another short film from If these walls could talk 2: bout couple adopting baby, wants baby to look white. Pretend child is biologically theirs, conform to hetrosexual ideal to be happy.
• 'Happy queer' and 'happily queer' two…