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This paper unpacks a number of the key terms which have preoccupied Jacques Derrida, after his so-called religio-ethico-political turn, from Force of Law (1989) to Voyous (2004): ‘autoimmunity’, ‘messianicity without messianism’, ‘arrivance’ and ‘democracy to-come’ among others. I will be discussing Derrida’s later texts especially Voyous/Rogues, which I will argue ought to become an important charter for a queer theory futurally envisaged, alongside the recent Social Text issue ‘What’s Queer about Queer Studies Now?’ (edited by David L. Eng, Judith Halberstam and José E. Muñoz, 2005) and Judith Butler’s more recent work (especially Giving an Account of Oneself, 2005). I suggest that autoimmunization, a somewhat new and ambiguous (and often negatively understood) term in the Derridean lexicon, offers a useful starting point for thinking about the undeterminable, monstrous, even roguish future of queer studies or what I call the queer theory to-come.