... cinema. This chapter focuses on Woman Demon Human, reexamining its aes- thetic and historical significance in relation to the development of Chinese cinema, post- Mao feminist theory, and the newly mainstreamed cultural 7 The Black Velvet Aesthetic Universal Cultural Feminism and Chinese...

... Tanya L. Saunders engages the black queer world-making among lesbians in Cuba and Brazil. Drawn from her experience as touring manager for a lesbian hip hop group, Saunders uses ethnographic methods to engage the ways in which black lesbians in the diaspora mobilize hip hop as a site of feminist...

... Inspired by botany and Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of the “rhizome/rhizomatic,” which emphasizes the creative, underground, multiple, and sometimes contradictory, Jafari S. Allen proposes “black/queer rhizomes.” The rhizome is the mode of propagation and sustenance for plants. Allen draws on...

... femi- nist model that would allow for tripartite critique: of patriarchy, of the limitations of white feminism, and of the class specificity of black feminism. Note here a theme running through much of O Grady s discussion of race: the importance of class as an inflect- ing factor. Q How does the...

...C H A P T E R T H R E E AFRO- FEMINISM BEFORE AFROPESSIMISM: MEDITATIONS ON GENDER AND ONTOLOGY I Y K O D A Y The erasure of Black women is not purely a matter of missing facts. AFRICAN AMERICAN POLICY FORUM, Black Girls Matter Say Her Name In Blues\Blank\Black, per for mance artist Dell M...

..., cultural studies was there, disillusioned but not disarmed, mapping away. A LIFE IN COUNTRY FOR AN ERA OF FEMINISM AND COUNTERCULTURE Loretta Lynn with George Vecsey, Coal Miner s Daughter, 1976 There were three versions of the title words, each reflecting a diff er ent cultural form and social moment. The...