... offers an alternative point of view. Benjamin’s focus on gesture offers concrete ways of reconceptualizing both identification and disidentification. Read together with his critique of legal violence, one can also see how the gesture displays and arrests the destructive power of the state. Benjamin thus...

..., demonstrating the continued need for camp spectatorship precisely in the attempt to banish it. © 2017 by Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2017 Caitlyn Jenner I Am Cait camp transgender drag disidentification reality television One night in 2015...

... protagonists in She Must Be Seeing Things seeks to theorize gender and sexual “scenes” of desire and disidentification as always already racialized. 23 For Ian Barnard, in his influential article “Queer Race,” de Lauretis is unique in her early invitation to consider race as part of the erotics of queer...

... woman not existing. Gender as a category of analysis also apparently gave the possibility of disidentification (Judith Butler writes of this most forcefully in The Psychic Life of Power ), whether this manifested itself as melancholia (a response to a loss of something one never knew one had or even...

... once utter “I,” settling back into it only after the present tense misery of those three weeks has passed. In texts such as these, a disidentification with the poor is the only enabling term for...

... 4.1 ( 1998 ): 127 -38. ———. Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics . Minneapolis: u of Minnesota p, 1999 . Nealon, Christopher. Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall . Durham: Duke up, 2001 . Nussbaum, Martha. “The Professor of...

..., Fred. In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition . Minneapolis: u of Minnesota p, 2003 . Muñoz, José Esteban. Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics . Minneapolis: Minnesota up, 1999 . Nancy, Jean-Luc. Listening . Trans. Catherine Mandell. New...

..., that was founded in disidentification if not political competition with overtly nationalist and supremacist formations of whiteness that have long practiced and preached the gospel of racial purity. 13 Its political apex is best evoked in the soothing moderation of the Obama era, which might explain...

... distinctions between the feminist approaches from either side of the Atlantic would emerge in a transnational collision, perhaps imaginatively somewhere around the Caribbean, which involved an element of disidentification in both...

... entails a simultaneous fabrication of possibilities of identification and enforced disidentifications through the operation of the heterosexual imperative. As such, the “exclusionary matrix” through which the subject emerges also...

... (mimeti- cism) and resistance (disidentification), with the questions of what they assimilate to and what they disidentify from left uninterrogated, while socioeconomic questions also go unanswered, reduced to the realm of...

... partial identifications and disidentifications of the individual with the state.6 Take, for example, the McCarthy hearings. They offer an exemplary depiction of the pressures and contingencies of the U.S. cold war performative upon...