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The paper focuses on queering in everyday life by presenting the tactics of lesbian mothers in various everyday spaces. In this paper the act of queering is analyzed as a moment of questioning the heteronormative backdrop of everyday life. This paper focuses on how Finnish lesbian mothers queer the taken-for-granted heteronormativity of everyday spaces through parenting practices and by living their cyclic daily life. The analysis of the interview material (31 in-depth interviews) implies a broader theoretical question: If the act of queering presumes an overt citation of queer representations; acts or sexual identities; how can queering be done in places; which are polished as nonsexual; like in children’s places; or in everyday life with its unarticulated indistinctiveness; the daily backdrop; which has become habitual? The connections between temporality and everyday life bring to the fore the un-eventfulness of everyday life and its opposite character to the transgressive moments. The paper is based on my PhD-thesis on Finnish lesbian mothers’ everyday spaces.

Literature: Valentine; Gill: Queer Bodies and the Production of Space. In Richardson; Diane and Seidman; Steven (eds.) (2002) Handbook of Lesbian & Gay Studies. London; Sage.

Everyday life; queer-theory; habitual