When Revolution Is Not Enough: Tracing the Limits of Black Radicalism in Dionne Brand’s Chronicles of the Hostile Sun and In Another Place, Not Here

2018 ◽  
pp. 55-76
Author(s):  
Laurie R. Lambert
Keyword(s):  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Black Radicalism ◽  
American Imperialism ◽  
Queer Women ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Radical Feminist ◽  
Feminist Politics ◽  
Postcolonial Caribbean ◽  
Poetry Collection ◽  
The Revolution

This chapter analyzes Dionne Brand’s poetry collection, Chronicles of the Hostile Sun (1984), and her novel In Another Place, Not Here (1996). While Chronicles pinpoints the misrepresentation of the Grenada Revolution in anti-revolutionary narratives emanating from American imperialism, In Another Place highlights how structures of healing and alternative epistemologies of black radicalism are developed between queer women who are on the margins of both the postcolonial Caribbean nation and the revolution intended to subvert American imperialist forces. Brand’s writing interrogates the black radical tradition in search of a radical feminist politics that can account for gender and sexuality alongside race and class.

Gender and Sexuality in Latin America

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna J. Guy
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Collective Agency ◽  
Modern State ◽  
National Society ◽  
Feminist Politics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Femininity And Masculinity ◽  
National Period

This article discusses gender and sexuality during the national period and the shift from women's history to the study of the social construction of both femininity and masculinity and of various forms of sexuality. It argues that this has problematized “the notion of universalized female oppression,” a trend in line with the general historiographical emphasis on individual and collective agency since the 1980s. Gender here is both a topic and a category of analysis. The discussion thus sheds much light on other aspects of—in this case, national—society, such as notions of nationality and citizenship, the nature of the modern state and law, populism, and revolutionary and feminist politics.

Performing heterosexual attraction in a bisexual interview: A methodological account of gendered power

Sexualities ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 136346071986180
Author(s):  
Ráhel Katalin Turai
Keyword(s):  
Life Story ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Embodied Learning ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Queer Women ◽  
Men I ◽  
Life Story Interview ◽  
Heterosexual Attraction ◽  
Reflexive Analysis

The article describes the specific gender and sexuality relations that emerged in a life story interview I conducted with a gay-identified man who desires both women and men. I provide a detailed description not only of the eroticization he performed in the interview, but also of my reactions: I felt vulnerable, attractive, attracted, and repulsed. My reflexive analysis frames these reactions in the context of the power dynamics between us, as well as in the context of his narrated experiences with women (including solidarity, desire, abuse and economic interests) – some of which my analysis would not have revealed without taking our interaction into account. I thus argue for the importance of processes of embodied learning, and specifically, for the theoretical significance of the bisexual gendered dynamics between researcher and respondent. Further, my account illuminates the ambiguity of bonding between queer women and men. I argue that owing to the theoretical productivity of the researcher’s reflexivity, the transactional erotic aspects of our own subjectivity are telling of the very meanings (of sex, gender, sexuality and other categories) we aim to interrogate.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Miklitsch
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
The Body ◽  
Femme Fatale ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Nuclear Bomb ◽  
Private Detective ◽  
Character Types

The introduction offers a fresh, animated take on the various films as well as the macro themes (anticommunism, the atomic or nuclear bomb, new media and technologies such as TV and 3-D, color and widescreen), character types (femme fatale, private detective, FBI, police), and leitmotifs (race and class, gender and sexuality, nation and homosexuality, expressionism and neo-realism) discussed in more detail and at greater length in the body of the book.

Historicizing Sexuality in the Cuban Revolution

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (136) ◽  
pp. 217-232
Author(s):  
Jennifer L. Lambe
Keyword(s):  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Cuban Revolution ◽  
History Of Sexuality ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Revolution

Abstract What should be the place of the Cuban Republic in histories of sexuality under the revolution? This essay argues that scholarly accounts of gender and sexuality in post-1959 Cuba want for a fuller engagement with their pre-1959 context. In particular, it seeks to open up a conversation about questions and topics in the history of sexuality that might straddle the 1959 divide, as well as the historiographical (and political) consequences of writing across it.

Brown’s Later Biographers and Reception, 1949–2000s

2019 ◽  
pp. 536-555
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Jane Wall Hinds
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Charles Brockden Brown ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
The Many

Biography and reception of Charles Brockden Brown since the mid-twentieth century was marked by efforts to canonize him and to recover primary and related texts. The first generation of this era typically practiced formalist readings and focused primarily on Brown’s first four novels. Often psychobiographical, these studies created a “Gothic” and proto-Romantic Brown. Later generations have expanded the canon to include Brown’s work over his lifetime, including the many genres he worked in; have practiced more cultural and poststructuralist methodologies with an eye to gender and sexuality, geography, race, and class; have placed Brown in a more global context; and have brought Brown studies into the era of digital humanities.

“Gay? Prove it”: The politics of queer anti-deportation activism

Sexualities ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (8) ◽  
pp. 958-975 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel A Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Negative Impact ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Gay And Lesbian ◽  
The Political ◽  
Credibility Assessment ◽  
Political Asylum ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Perceived Credibility ◽  
The Social

This article examines how gender, sexuality, race and class intersect in queer asylum claims to influence the perceived credibility of gay and lesbian asylum applicants. Building on recent scholarship in queer migration studies that considers the role of gender and sexuality in the social construction of migrant illegality, this article explores how practices of credibility assessment in the political asylum process produce women and sexual minorities as deportable subjects. As I argue, the tactics utilized by gay male asylum applicants to resist deportation show how practices of credibility assessment in the political asylum process are linked to the state’s reproduction of sexual citizenship narratives, narratives that have a disproportionately negative impact upon queer female migrants of color. Accounting for the intersections among gender, sexuality, race and class in influencing the perceived credibility of gay and lesbian asylum applicants is thus crucial for conceptualizing alternative forms of queer anti-deportation activism.

scholarly journals Toward a Theoretico-practical Accountability to Difference and Relationality

2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Rakes
Keyword(s):  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Feminist Philosophy ◽  
White Supremacist ◽  
Structural Power ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Full Responsibility ◽  
Important Requirement ◽  
The World ◽  
Race And Sexuality ◽  
The Many

<p>In this essay, I argue for a theoretico-practical accountability to difference and belonging in feminist philosophy and theory that requires attentiveness to disability as an important vector of power, normativity, and oppression. My insistence on accountability echoes the many appeals to confront and take account of one's own ableist, white supremacist, cisgendered forms of privilege (while simultaneously working to dismantle more systemic forms of privilege) that disabled feminists, feminists of color, and transgender feminists have made.<a href="file:///J:/Working%20Groups/Knowledge%20Bank/KB%20DSQ/content/dsq_v33_04_2013_fall/Raw/Rakes%20FINAL.doc#_edn1">[i]</a> Following Eli Clare and Aimee Carrillo Rowe, I consider how an ongoing accountability to intersectionality and embodiment in a politics of relation can avoid the exclusionary logics at work in feminist philosophical and theoretical invocations of "gender, race, and class," or "gender, race, and sexuality" that consistently ignore disability, among other identifications, as constitutive productions of structural power. An embodied and intersectional feminist refiguring of subjectivity that attends to race, class, age, disability, cis/gender, and sexuality, among other axes of difference, should be recognized as an important requirement of accountability for feminist philosophers and theorists, especially feminist philosophers and theorists who are privileged along one or more of these axes of power.</p> <div><br /> <hr size="1" /><div><p><a href="file:///J:/Working%20Groups/Knowledge%20Bank/KB%20DSQ/content/dsq_v33_04_2013_fall/Raw/Rakes%20FINAL.doc#_ednref1">[i]</a> Aurora Levins Morales (1998), frames this accountability as &ldquo;the willingness to examine and dismantle our own privilege and take full responsibility for remaking the world so that neither we nor anyone else can hold it again&rdquo; (94).&nbsp;</p><p>Keywords:<em> </em>belonging; relationality; feminism; disability; queer; transgender</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p></div></div>

scholarly journals Gender, love, and sex: Using duoethnography to research gender and sexuality minority experiences of transgender relationships

Sexualities ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 28-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Vincent ◽  
Sonja Erikainen
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Identity Negotiation ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Feminist Politics ◽  
Relationship Challenges

This article uses a duoethnographic approach to explore the intersection of lesbian and queer sexualities and transgender identities in intimate relationships. By comparing experiences of gender and sexual identity negotiation within transgender relationships, the authors document how sexual identity borders are traversed, and how gender is negotiated and interrogated in and through these relationships. We argue that our differential experiences of ‘queer’ as an identity, our relationship challenges and how we express/relate to gender are heavily shaped by feminist politics, and how social interactions are gendered.

scholarly journals Who were the Hackney Flashers? The history and importance of a British Feminist Collective, 1974-1980

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Dring
Keyword(s):  
Social Inequality ◽  
Oral Histories ◽  
Documentary Photography ◽  
Women's Liberation Movement ◽  
Radical Feminist ◽  
Liberation Movement ◽  
Feminist Politics ◽  
Museum Professionals ◽  
History Of ◽  
Written Sources

The purpose of this project is to provide a resource for museum professionals who are working with materials related to the Hackney Flashers. The Hackney Flashers were a radical socialist-feminist collective that was active in northeast London in the 1970s. The goal is to provide a well-researched history of the collective, as well as address current issues surrounding exhibiting and archiving related materials. This has been done by balancing written sources with oral histories by surviving members of the collective. Imbedded in the Women’s Liberation Movement and the radical-feminist politics of 1970s Britain, the Hackney Flashers used photography to document women in their community in order to expose social inequality. Heavily influenced by the photomontages of John Heartfield, the collective collaged documentary photographs with cartoons, advertisements and text in order to provide a wider context than what documentary photography could provide on its own.

scholarly journals Commoning the Komal: The Toronto Kurdish Community Centre

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
Elif Genc
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Radical Politics ◽  
Radical Feminist ◽  
Feminist Politics ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Refugee Experience ◽  
Marxist Tradition ◽  
Community Centre

Within the walls of this two-story storefront, a distinct alternative practice of radical politics and life is taking place. In fact, what would appear to be an extension of the Kurdish social movement, as it is understood, is being practiced against a backdrop of the refugee experience within the metropolitan city limits of Toronto. This practice of what is arguably feminist anarchism has become known in the recent years by the title  “Democratic Confederalism” (Öcalan 2011). Democratic Confederalism in its feminist anarchist framework reflects our understanding of what is known within the Marxist tradition today  as “the commons” (Federici & Linebaugh 2018). This paper seeks to show that the Kurdish Community Centre has, over nearly three decades, established for its members within Toronto a space that attempts to practice a radical feminist politics mirroring our understanding of “the commons”. However, similar to the dilemma of most leftist social movements, struggles with the divide between theory and praxis across space and time mark the centre’s main concerns. Exclusive to the diasporic experince, the Kurdish refugees are faced with trying to navigate their anti-state Kurdish revolutionary struggle within a nation that has provided them refuge. This paper will explore what is understood as “komal” (community) and how have these community centres come to represent the Kurdish social movement in diaspora spaces through refugee lived experiences—particularly the Kurdish woman’s. 

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