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The Smear: Vibrational Flesh and the Calculus of Black Queer Becoming in Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight
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differences (2022) 33 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 May 2022
... Black and queer world-making Black study play queer Black boyhoods queer study sociality and relation © 2022 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2022 [email protected] ...
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Black, Queer, and Sick: Amplifying Representation’s Noisiness
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differences (2024) 35 (2): 79–88.
Published: 01 September 2024
... ubiquity within queer studies, Black feminism, and my own work—this is not surprising. There are several layers to thinking Lorde’s erotic autonomy vis-à-vis questions of representation and disruption. First, there is the act of writing itself, which Lorde mobilizes as a form of self-making and activism...
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differences (2024) 35 (2): 1–11.
Published: 01 September 2024
... the black (w)hole, contributors chart the history, present, and futurity of Hammonds’s “Black (W)holes,” and, by extension, the black diasporic feminist, lesbian, queer, and trans intellectual and sociopolitical life-worlds in its wake. If part of the critical promise of the black (w)hole metaphor...
View articletitled, Inside the <span class="search-highlight">Black</span> (W)hole: A <span class="search-highlight">Queer</span> <span class="search-highlight">Black</span> Feminist Retrospective
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Sex After the Black Normal
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differences (2015) 26 (1): 141–167.
Published: 01 May 2015
... shuttles into the photograph the very threat of the “primitive” that it is supposed to sanitize. 6 If state narratives of black freedom-making fueled the stories of American democracy and empire in the decades after World War II, representations of black women’s sexuality in American public culture...
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Black (W)holes: A Problem for Feminist Thought
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differences (2024) 35 (2): 12–31.
Published: 01 September 2024
... a lifetime of knowledge gathering about race and racism to bear on their everyday experiences” ( “Making” 430 ). Taking the elite world of physics to task in “Making Black Women Scientists,” Prescod-Weinstein finds that the grounding in objectivity that (the) scientific method so relies upon requires...
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“I guess I have to just put my dick on the table”: Rough Trade, Tenure, and Black Sexualities as Self-defense
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differences (2024) 35 (2): 32–54.
Published: 01 September 2024
...-Indentitarian and Post-Intersectional Anxiety in the Neoliberal Corporate University.” 2 Shoniqua Roach’s reading of a draft of this paper demonstrates this: “I am in tears, my black queer sister. This is so beautiful and also the archive that I have had to turn to to make sense of the ways in which I am...
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Renarratable Bonds: Queer Relationality in the Scene of Redress
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differences (2024) 35 (3): 150–177.
Published: 01 December 2024
... extends the scene of redress with their lover to Black queer readers, who likewise face a world, nation, and body “plotting to kill you.” Smith does not dismiss fear, or try to assuage it. But they note that this lover served as “a reminder to my then stigma-riddled mind that even within danger...
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Is Black Marriage Queer?
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differences (2018) 29 (2): 204–212.
Published: 01 September 2018
....” The fictional lifeworld of Black Panther is, of course, an imaginary domain. Okoye, W’Kabi, and the other citizens of Wakanda inhabit a fairy-tale realm that is far removed from the real, historical world of black marriage on which Wedlocked focuses. The imagined queer place from which the film’s...
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Black Gravity, or a Hidden History of Empire
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differences (2024) 35 (2): 132–156.
Published: 01 September 2024
..., physics, and Black feminist studies. By analyzing origin stories that surround the moniker black hole in physics, the essay shows how imperial violence and notions of Black gender and sexual alterity suffused the term from its inception in the world of physics—a history that Black feminist theorists call...
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Reparative Reading and the Drug Wars’ Queer Children
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differences (2022) 33 (1): 60–91.
Published: 01 May 2022
... and black queer intimacy. The film’s reparative mood finds in black queer intimacy and service work respite, sustenance, and quiet rehabilitation amid the toxic world the drug wars made and continue to make. By contrast, Delicious Foods experiments with a version of what Chen calls an “intoxicated method...
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“Black (W)holes” and the Propagation of New Possibilities
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differences (2024) 35 (2): 184–192.
Published: 01 September 2024
... by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2024 Black HBCUs possibility model queer Spelman women [V]isibility in and of itself does not erase a history of silence nor does it challenge the structure of power and domination, symbolic and material...
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“Beyoncé and Her Husband”: Representing Infidelity and Kinship in a Black Marriage
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differences (2018) 29 (2): 154–188.
Published: 01 September 2018
... is simultaneously rendered as both prototypical and queer and, second, that Beyoncé’s oeuvre—anchored by her command, “Okay, ladies, now let’s get in formation!”—can be read as a making, or poiesis, that locates black women’s sexual liberation in an autoethnographic kinship formation rather than squarely within...
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Queer Theory: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities An Introduction
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differences (1991) 3 (2): iii–xviii.
Published: 01 July 1991
... Coalition for Black Lesbians and Gays, Epicene is subtitled Canada's Lesbian and Gay News Magazine, and so forth. In a sense, the term "Queer Theory" was arrived at in the effort to avoid all of these fine distinctions in our discursive protocols, not to adhere to anyone of the given terms, not to assume...
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Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality
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differences (1994) 6 (2-3): 126–145.
Published: 01 July 1994
..., that determines what can and cannot be seen. The goal should be to develop a "politics of articulation." This politics would build on the interrogation of what makes it possible for black women to speak and act. Finally, my search for black women's sexuality through queer theory has taught me that I need...
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The Black (W)hole of Dysphoria
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differences (2024) 35 (2): 55–78.
Published: 01 September 2024
... activist, this essay directs urgent attention to the simultaneously material, spiritual, psychic, and affective dimensions of self-, knowledge-, and world-making. [email protected] © 2024 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2024 black feminism...
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Lipwork
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differences (2016) 27 (3): 93–105.
Published: 01 December 2016
... in jurisprudential practice. Although not framed in literary terms, we might say that Crenshaw exposed a figure, a black woman, as a catachresis in the law, as a figural term for which there is no literal referent in the law : You can be black or you can be a woman, but when you stand before the law you can’t...
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Turn the Beat Around: Sadomasochism, Temporality, History
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differences (2008) 19 (1): 32–70.
Published: 01 May 2008
..., then, the whip is important not just as an elongation
of the body, or merely as a prosthesis, even as sadist’s mnemonic device,
but as itself the switchily “passive” recipient of a black queer touch that
makes it shine with new meanings...
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differences (2024) 35 (3): 1–13.
Published: 01 December 2024
... kinship, and the relationship between ethics and politics. The essays in the special issue consider Butler’s Giving an Account of Oneself in relation to a range of fields, specifically queer theory, Black studies, trans studies, disability studies, postcolonial theory, feminism, psychoanalysis, life...
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The Cosmos Is a Black Aesthetic
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differences (2024) 35 (2): 193–207.
Published: 01 September 2024
.... Black hole, like black female sexuality, has a multiplicity of meanings. Black scientists and Black queer/women’s sexuality are dynamical, ongoing processes. 3 A reading strategy that seeks to use the physical world should take advantage of its dynamical nature, including our changing...
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Copying Cosby: Pornmimicries of Race, Sexuality, and Gender
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differences (2020) 31 (1): 98–134.
Published: 01 May 2020
... (for example, the hardcore porn series Black Street Hookers numbers 1 through 108) as profoundly mimetic, this latest segment mimes not only popular culture but also itself, containing exact scenes, making narrative and thematic references, using the same set, and deploying a similar cast as the previous two...
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