 Water, then, has the absolute power to transform, to take one material and turn it into something else. What's queerer than that? Being made and unmade by a force greater than yourself. If queerness can be understood as a longing, a technology that allows us to glimpse something new that we can sense before we see it, a dowsing rod, a black light, then water might be the catalyst that dissolves our attachment to whatever is keeping us from it ourselves. Jay Wertham here on Live Wire.