4. ‘‘The turban is not a hat’’: queer diaspora and practices of profiling

2021 ◽  
pp. 166-203
Keyword(s):  
Queer Diaspora

Introduction: Diasporic kinship across the black Atlantic

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
Gigi Adair
Keyword(s):  
Queer Studies ◽  
Black Atlantic ◽  
Diaspora Studies ◽  
Colonial Power ◽  
Atlantic Studies ◽  
Queer Diaspora

The introduction sets out the field of critical kinship studies and its relation to diaspora studies, black Atlantic studies and queer studies. It offers an overview of relevant works of diaspora and black Atlantic studies and queer studies, and how these fields are brought together in theorizations of queer diaspora. It then turns to the question of how to do critical kinship studies to suggest a double-pronged approach to the study of kinship. The study of kinship is both particularly interesting and particularly complex in postcolonial contexts, as kinship can be used both as a tool of colonial power and a means of anticolonial resistance, and the novels studied in this book suggest that kinship often does both.

The Queer Cyborg in Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa’s Cosmic Blood

2020 ◽  
pp. 90-106
Author(s):  
Gina K. Velasco
Keyword(s):  
Racial Difference ◽  
Video Art ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
American Artist ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Queer Diaspora ◽  
The Moment ◽  
First Contact

Chapter 4 draws on José Muñoz's Cruising Utopia as a theoretical framework for analyzing the cyborg as a utopian figure for a queer diaspora beyond the heteronormativity and masculinism of the nation. The performance and video art piece Cosmic Blood, by the queer Colombian and Filipina/o American artist Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa, challenges both (post)colonial taxonomies of racial difference and contemporary capitalist discourses that naturalize the labor of the racialized, gendered Filipina body. Cosmic Blood uses a science fictional mode to present a retelling of the moment of first contact between the colonizer and the colonized. The cyborg character functions both as a figure for racial and gender hybridity and as a figure for a queer diaspora beyond the familial ties of blood and kinship.

Queer Diaspora

2012 ◽  
pp. 183-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANNE-MARIE FORTIER
Keyword(s):  
Queer Diaspora
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