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differences (2024) 35 (2): 1–11.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Shoniqua Roach This essay introduces a spirited cross-disciplinary and intergenerational queer black feminist dialogue about what Evelynn Hammonds’s 1994 difference s essay “Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality” has meant, and continues to mean, for queer black feminist...
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differences (2024) 35 (2): 55–78.
Published: 01 September 2024
...V Varun Chaudhry This essay returns to Evelynn Hammonds’s field-changing essay “Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality,” with a focus on the labor of knowledge production under fraught institutional conditions, characterized in this essay as languaging . The simultaneous desire...
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differences (2024) 35 (2): 12–31.
Published: 01 September 2024
... of this essay writes across three registers: the first addresses what contemporary discoveries about black holes attempt to tell us about “matter,” or what matters; the second is what Hammonds sought to disrupt or prove impossible in her essay; and the third is a meditation on the place of “elementary particles...
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differences (2024) 35 (2): 208–209.
Published: 01 September 2024
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differences (1994) 6 (2-3): 126–145.
Published: 01 July 1994
... .” Vance 1 – 24 . Wald Robert . Space, Time, and Gravity: The Theory of the Big Bang and Black Holes . 2nd edition. Chicago : U of Chicago P , 1992 . Wall Cheryl , ed. Changing Our Own Words: Essays on Criticism, Theory, and Writing by Black Women . New Brunswick : Rutgers UP...
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differences (2024) 35 (2): 157–183.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Megan Finch This essay employs the autotheoretical critique of the university and celestial cartography pioneered in Evelynn Hammonds’s “Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality” to understand the dynamic relationship between the silencing of black academics and black women...
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differences (2024) 35 (2): 184–192.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Moya Bailey The starting point of this essay is the author’s acknowledgment that Evelynn Hammonds’s “Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality” has been a throughline for her scholarly and personal development. That relationship to Hammonds’s text and its author shifts...
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differences (2024) 35 (2): 89–108.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Julian Kevon Kamilah Glover This article reflects on the impact of Evelynn Hammonds’s seminal essay “Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality” to theorize how suturing might present an apt method for considering the complexities and contradictions of Black female sexuality...
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differences (2024) 35 (2): 132–156.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Petal Samuel This essay takes this occasion—the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of Evelynn Hammonds’s germinal essay “Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality”—as an opportunity to explore the turn to spacetime and astrophysics in Black feminist writing and scholarship...
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differences (2024) 35 (2): 109–131.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Kimberly Bain This article takes up the sonic slippages between black hole , black hold , and Black hold as a threshold for thought. Taking Evelynn Hammonds’s query “what is it like inside a black hole?” as an opening, the author explores the way geometric properties of space shaped not only...
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differences (2024) 35 (2): 193–207.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Chanda Prescod-Weinstein This essay begins with the premise that Evelynn Hammonds’s highly cited “Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality” provides a reading strategy that has largely been ignored by subsequent scholarship. This work theorizes science as a Black episteme...
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differences (2024) 35 (2): 79–88.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Amber Jamilla Musser The unresolved problematic at the center of Evelynn Hammonds’s “Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality” is that of representation. The importance of representation, she argues, lies in its ability to highlight alternative modes of being and thinking. Though...
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differences (2003) 14 (3): 89–111.
Published: 01 December 2003
... cheeks and the black hole of his eyes” (181, 175–76).
In this text, the face is determined by a white wall/black hole system—the
white wall of signifiance or the field of play of the signifier and the black
hole of subjectivity...
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differences (2024) 35 (2): 32–54.
Published: 01 September 2024
... grounded theory LGBTQ+ academics self-defense storytelling method writerly extravagance In the following, I reflect on the legacy of Evelynn Hammonds’s celebrated, oft-anthologized, and field-defining difference s article “Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality,” using proverbs...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 267–275.
Published: 01 May 2023
... invented—“wrought” is Charlotte’s verb (314–15) —are not so much characters as they are black holes, gravitational forces unrelated to any conventional conceptions of humanity. “Catherine and Heathcliff are,” in Bersani’s stunning formulation, “an aspiring openness,” one which in the “etymological sense...
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differences (2015) 26 (1): 141–167.
Published: 01 May 2015
... Twenty years after Hammonds published “Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality” in the summer 1994 issue of difference s, the black female queer, in Sharon Holland’s words, continues to be produced “in a historical register that matters only to her” (93). That is, “representations...
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differences (1994) 6 (2-3): 314–315.
Published: 01 July 1994
... . Grosz Elizabeth . “ The Labors of Love. Analyzing Perverse Desire: An Interrogation of Teresa de Lauretis's The Practice of Love .” 6 . 2–3 : 283 – 304 . Hammonds Evelynn . “ Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality .” 6 . 2–3 : 132 – 151 . Hertz Neil...
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differences (1996) 8 (1): 132–151.
Published: 01 April 1996
... . “ Toward an Art of Transvestism: Colonialism and Homosexuality in Puerto Rican Literature .” Bergmann and Smith 137 – 67 . Dollimore Jonathan . Sexual Dissidence . Oxford : Oxford UP , 1991 . Edelman Lee . “ The Part for the (W)hole: Baldwin, Homophobia, and the Phantasmatics...
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differences (2019) 30 (1): 126–147.
Published: 01 May 2019
...-badu-has-4-kids-3-baby-daddys-all-by-rappers-is-it-voodoo-kendrick-lamar-next/ . Fleetwood Nicole R. Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 2011 . Hammonds Evelynn M. “ Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality...
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differences (2017) 28 (1): 124–173.
Published: 01 May 2017
... opening and thus completely blacks out the screen), that hole, as the trace of jouissance, asserts itself nonetheless. The screenplay for Bad Education suggests that the blackout gives way to a fade-in—“The screen remains black for two or three seconds. Slowly, from within the darkness of the frame...
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