This work is mostly an account of how we perform this queering in our reading along with the anxieties they generate both within and outside this process. While our anxieties are concomitant with those who are reading ‘against’ the mainstream, it also points to a deeper, structural anxiety in mainstream international law itself. Contrary to what a standard law school Public International Law (PIL) syllabus tells us, the anxiety of mainstream international law is much more than the uncertainty of outcome and how they deviate from established legal principles. Mainstream international law’s dilemma does not rest in how exploited (and hence realist) it is by the powerful states as against a universal legal framework. Through queering, the terms of the debate are placed on an entirely different axes – of who international is as against all those who are operating at some distance from this sight and site. For the mainstream structures, the anxiety lies in how well concealed its normative figure remains in order to make it universality palatable. And for others, this is represented in the uncertainty and secondary status of their position as knowledge makers and norm-taking objects. Because international law, in its true iteration is a European, Christian male, the inherent othering of all other identities invariably produces an exclusionary, desirable international legal personality. The trajectory of legality (and legitimacy) is a spectrum, representing the proximity to and from this figure, and the queer toolkit reading unveils this figure for what it visually represents and textually generates. The paper itself will demonstrate two readings from this point onward. In most of Part I, we will look at how international law operates through the state which is historically grounded in the image/form of the European, Christian Male. This part is deliberately textually opaque and it is up to the reader to make what they will of this section of the text. In Part II, we perform the queering and seeing together. Here, each iteration and account of international is subjected to critique as well as assigned an image. And finally, the conclusion accounts for a sense of collective anxiety of living international law that this text is likely to generate.