scholarly journals Quando Existir é Resistir: Two-spirit como crítica colonial

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Estevão Rafael Fernandes
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Gender Studies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Colonial Studies ◽  
Two Spirit

ResumoBuscando recuperar o aspecto de crítica colonial do movimento two-spirit norte-americano, este artigo pretende ampliar o campo de possibilidades nos estudos das sexualidades indígenas, propondo um passo além para os estudos de gênero (bem como dos estudos coloniais). Neste sentido, situaremos o surgimento das organizações two-spirit nos Estados Unidos, desde sua gênese, de modo a mais bem compreender suas contribuições epistemológicas. A partir dessas potencialidades, buscaremos problematizar questões e desafios para o estudo das sexualidades indígenas queer no Brasil.Palavras-Chave: Sexualidades indígenas, Two-Spirit, Teoria Queer, Colonialismo When to exist is to resist: Two-spirit as colonial critiqueAbstractBy analyzing the two-spirit movement from its contributions to colonial critics, this article aims to expand the field of possibilities on the studies of indigenous sexualities, suggesting a step further to gender studies (as well as colonial studies). In this sense, one will place the emergence of two-spirit organizations in the United States, from its genesis in order to better understand its epistemological contributions. From these potentials, one seek to discuss issues and challenges for the studies of queer sexualities indigenous in Brazil.Keywords: Native Sexualities, Two-Spirit, Queer Theory, Colonialism Cuando existir es resistir: Dos espíritus como crítica colonialResumenAl analizar el movimiento de los dos espíritus desde sus aportes a las críticas coloniales, este artículo pretende ampliar el campo de posibilidades sobre los estudios de las sexualidades indígenas, sugiriendo un paso más allá de los estudios de género. En este sentido, se pondrá en el surgimiento de las organizaciones de dos espíritus en los Estados Unidos, desde su génesis para comprender mejor sus contribuciones epistemológicas.Palabras clave: Sexualidades nativas, Dos Espíritus, Teoría Queer, Colonialismo

Gender Diaspora and International Women's Movements

2019 ◽  
pp. 59-82
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Gender Studies ◽  
Real World ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
The United States ◽  
Women's Movements ◽  
Middle Eastern Women ◽  
Diaspora Politics ◽  
Affective Impact

This chapter outlines the psychological or affective characterizations of diaspora in relation to gender. The chapter provides a brief literature review in gender studies and diaspora, including the concept of intersectionality. The chapter discusses the #MeToo movement in terms of women feeling like strangers in their own homes (or homelands) as well as from a traditional diasporic definition features ethnographical research in the form of interviews with Middle Eastern women who inhabit the Muslim diaspora in the United States. The interviews are used to highlight real-world experiences of diaspora and the affective impact of diaspora politics, and the building of diasporic networks.

Toward transformative media organizing: LGBTQ and Two-Spirit media work in the United States

2016 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sasha Costanza-Chock ◽  
Chris Schweidler ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Structural Inequality ◽  
Scarce Resources ◽  
Organizational Survey ◽  
Cross Platform ◽  
Two Spirit ◽  
Media Work ◽  
Media Practices

This article summarizes key findings from a strengths and needs assessment of media work by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans*, Queer (LGBTQ) and Two-Spirit organizations in the United States, conducted in 2014–2015. This mixed-methods participatory research included a nationwide organizational survey with 231 respondents, 19 expert interviews, and a series of workshops with project partners and advisers. We found that despite scarce resources, many LGBTQ and Two-Spirit organizations have an intersectional analysis of linked systems of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and other axes of identity and structural inequality. Many seek to do media work that develops the critical consciousness and leadership of their communities, create media in ways that are deeply accountable to their social base, use participatory approaches to media making, are strategic and cross-platform in their approach, and root their work in community action. We call this combination of characteristics transformative media organizing, and we believe it describes an emerging paradigm for social movement media practices in the current media landscape.

Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion in North America

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Petro
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
North America ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Sexuality And Religion

The history of religion in the United States cannot be understood without attending to histories of race, gender, and sexuality. Since the 1960s, social and political movements for civil rights have ignited interest in the politics of identity, especially those tied to movements for racial justice, women’s rights, and LGBT rights. These movements have in turn informed scholarly practice, not least by prompting the formation of new academic fields, such as Women’s Studies and African American studies, and new forms of analysis, such as intersectionality, critical race theory, and feminist and queer theory. These movements have transformed how scholars of religion in colonial North America and the United States approach intersections of race, gender, and sexuality. From the colonial period to the present, these discourses of difference have shaped religious practice and belief. Religion has likewise shaped how people understand race, gender, and sexuality. The way that most people in the United States think about identity, especially in terms of race, gender, or sexuality, has a longer history forged out of encounters among European Christians, Native Americans, and people of African descent in the colonial world. European Christians brought with them a number of assumptions about the connection between civilization and Christian ideals of gender and sexuality. Many saw their role in the Americas as one of Christianization, a process that included not only religious but also sexual and cultural conversion, as these went hand in hand. Assumptions about religion and sexuality proved central to how European colonists understood the people they encountered as “heathens” or “pagans.” Religion likewise informed how they interpreted the enslavement of Africans, which was often justified through theological readings of the Bible. Native Americans and African Americans also drew upon religion to understand and to resist the violence of European colonialism and enslavement. In the modern United States, languages of religion, race, gender, and sexuality continue to inform one another as they define the boundaries of normative “modernity,” including the role of religion in politics and the relationship between religious versus secular arguments about race, gender, and sexuality.

scholarly journals Colonial Studies in the United States during the Twentieth Century

1933 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 399
Author(s):  
Donald H. Mugridge ◽  
Lowell Joseph Ragatz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The United States ◽  
Colonial Studies

The Bible and American LGBT Interpretation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa J. Hornsby
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
The United States ◽  
Academic Organizations ◽  
Bible Translation ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Biblical Scholarship

This chapter gives an overview of the roots of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual/transgendered (LGBT) interpretation in the United States. Much of this hermeneutic is tied to various schools of interpretative thought including historical critical, modernist, popular, postmodern, and queer theory. The hermeneutic can also be tied to centuries of Bible translation choices, focusing on certain words and phrases that have become central to much larger interpretative debates. The chapter also gives brief synopses of groundbreaking work in the field of LGBT hermeneutics and the seminal publications in the discipline. It concludes with an overview of the presence of LGBT biblical scholarship in the primary academic organizations.

scholarly journals Changing childhoods: Using queer theory and intersectional methods to reconsider the epistemic resources of children with gay and lesbian parents

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Skrlac Lo
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gay And Lesbian ◽  
Epistemic Injustice ◽  
Lesbian Parents ◽  
Gay Parents ◽  
The World ◽  
Gay And Lesbian Parents

This article explores contemporary childhoods through a lens of epistemic privileges and injustices in order to consider the experiences of children whose family models may not reflect the heterosexual norm. More than 14 million children in the United States have one or more gay parents. As the legal definition of marriage in the United States now recognizes same-sex partnerships, it is likely that this official number will increase. The experiences of children with gay and lesbian parents are often overlooked due to public sentiment toward gay partnerships and parenting, but the changing legal status of gay marriage around the world may indicate a shift in sentiment toward these family structures. For childhood studies researchers, this shift will provide opportunities to conduct studies with children whose voices largely were silenced or omitted from past and current scholarship. Particularly, young children with gay parents are in a unique position to describe the world since they must navigate between their homonormative private worlds and the heteronormative world of public institutions. Drawing on queer theory and incorporating the concept of intersectionality, I posit that applying Fricker’s concept of epistemic injustice to studies of childhood may reveal new ways to identify systemic and cultural biases including heteronormativity and adult–child power asymmetries. Examining issues of epistemic injustice through a queer lens and using intersectional methods may elucidate aspects of childhood culture that are misunderstood or absent from the scholarship.

scholarly journals Re-defining Feminism/s, Re-imagining Faith? Margot Badran on Islamic Feminism

1970 ◽  
pp. 57-65
Author(s):  
Azza Basarudin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Middle East ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Gender Studies ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
The United States ◽  
Islamic Feminism ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
Northwestern University ◽  
Christian Understanding

Margot Badran is a scholar-activist and specialist in gender studies in the Middle East and Islamic world. She is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Muslim- Christian Understanding at Georgetown University. She was recently Edith Kreeger Wolf Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Religion Department and Preceptor at the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa at Northwestern University. She has lectured widely in academic and popular forums in the United States, as well as in Europe, the Middle East, and South Asia. She is also the author of numerous scholarly articles on feminism and Islam, and writes on gender issues for Al Ahram Weekly.

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