For Monique Wittig, the political fight against hetero-patriarchal oppression requires work in writing to destroy the gendered language and concepts which justify and perpetuate this material reality. In this essay, Nicholas Scott explores the implications of Wittig’s project for queer identities, recognising that such subjects are often constructed with the language of gender. Rejecting a view that posits this as a tension, he argues instead that contemporary conceptions of queer subjectivities can be understood as a demountable bridge between the world Wittig diagnoses, and the one she wishes to create.