Motivations for Queer Women of Color to Join Culturally Based Sororities

Este ensaio aborda as produções artísticas de um coletivo colombiano chamado Mujeres Al Borde e busca descrever algumas de suas atividades e as maneiras como produzem e articulam relações entre arte, ativismo e produção audiovisual, abordando aí gênero, sexualidade e questões étnico-raciais. O trabalho trata das relações transnacionais desse coletivo com um grupo queer ativista estadunidense, Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project, para a criação de seu próprio programa de treinamento cinematográfico, a Escuela Audiovisual Al Borde; reflete sobre as possibilidades de pensarmos sobre ativismo queer no contexto latino-americano; e, por fim, analisa algumas das produções audiovisuais do Mujeres Al Borde, naquilo que compreendem como seu artivismo, neologismo que articula arte e ativismo. Enfocam-se as maneiras pelas quais esses coletivos produzem redes de colaboração transnacionais em contextos geopolíticos globalizados dissidentes, ao mesmo tempo em que buscam, através da relação que criam entre arte e política, promover transformação social e meios de expressão visual para comunidades LGBTQ, cultivando queer artivismos feministas no sul e no norte globais.

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Walk like a Man, Talk like a Woman

Black. Queer. Southern. Women. ◽

10.5149/northcarolina/9781469641102.003.0004 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 137-164

Author(s):

E. Patrick Johnson

Keyword(s):

Women Of Color ◽

The South ◽

Queer Women ◽

Gender Presentation ◽

Queer Women Of Color

This chapter upends the myth that all queer women of color are butch, or masculine-presenting. Johnson’s interlocutors reveal that gender presentation and expression for women in the South have historically been much more fluid and malleable than is commonly assumed. Moreover, the women expose the inability of terms like ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine” to fully capture how they play with gender.

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“The Normative Idea of Queer is a White Person”: Understanding Perceptions of White Privilege Among Lesbian, Bisexual, and Queer Women of Color in Toronto, Canada

Lesbians and White Privilege ◽

10.4324/9781003142058-7 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 73-90

Author(s):

Carmen H. Logie ◽

Marie-Jolie Rwigema

Keyword(s):

Women Of Color ◽

White Privilege ◽

Queer Women ◽

White Person ◽

Queer Women Of Color

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Playing with power: Kink, race, and desire

Sexualities ◽

10.1177/1363460720964063 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 136346072096406

Author(s):

Michelle Liang

Keyword(s):

The Netherlands ◽

Ethnic Minorities ◽

Women Of Color ◽

Daily Life ◽

Real Life ◽

People Of Color ◽

Sexual Expression ◽

Queer Women ◽

The Face ◽

Queer Women Of Color

Although the separation between “real life” and “play” appears to reinscribe liberal notions of autonomy, BDSM practitioners actually mobilize this boundary to trouble liberal understandings of the liberal autonomous rational agent. Through understandings desires as inextricable from power, and fetishes as displacements of anxieties, BDSM practices recognize “irrational” desires and multiple, fractured selves. In examining kink practices of queer women of color in the Netherlands, this paper explores the transformative potentials of BDSM for queer people of color, especially in resisting colonial discourses that privilege liberal discourses of agency and conceptualize bodies of color as nonmodern, inferior, exotic, and irrational. In the face of discourses that pit Dutch freedom and sexual expression against ethnic minorities and sexual constraint, marginalized kinksters are forming communities that radically centralize marginalized kink experiences and reject pathologizing discourses, as they critically alter the implications of and possibilities for slippages between daily life and kink.

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Sisters in the Life

Feminist Media Histories ◽

10.1525/fmh.2019.5.4.76 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 5 (4) ◽

pp. 76-86

Author(s):

Yvonne Welbon ◽

Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Keyword(s):

Women Of Color ◽

Black Feminist ◽

Queer Women ◽

Media Arts ◽

Award Winning ◽

The World ◽

History Of ◽

Feminist Film ◽

Queer Women Of Color ◽

Media Project

Yvonne Welbon, an award-winning filmmaker and founder of the Chicago-based nonprofit Sisters in Cinema, interviews Alexis Pauline Gumbs, cofounder of the Black Feminist Film School, as part of a larger trans-media project on the history of queer Black lesbian media makers, SistersintheLife.com. Gumbs speaks about Black feminist practices of education and filmmaking, delving into the founding and inspiration of the Black Feminist Film School and its mission to “create the world anew.” She explains her “community accountable practice” that is connected to traditions of Black intellectualism, her position as provost of a “tiny Black feminist university” that she calls Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind, as well as how she and her collaborators have been inspired by QWOCMAP (Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project).

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