Playing with straight lines and queer times: Children engaging with romantic love within and beyond heteronormative temporalities

This article explores how life schedules and courses that are organized chronologically become part of normalized heterosexuality in children’s conversations play. The analysis draws on ethnographic data from a Swedish preschool, focusing situations where children engage with themes such as romantic love, kisses weddings. Queer temporal perspectives applied to challenge normativity norm-challenging perceived, not least relation desirable futures for displayed. shows love discourses ways both reproduce heteronormativity linear temporalities normative course schedules.