... Simon . Policing Desire: Pornography, AIDS and the Media . Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P , 1989 . Williams Patricia J. The Alchemy of Race and Rights: Diary of a Law Professor . Cambridge : Harvard UP , 1991 . EVELYNN HAMMONDS Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female...

... by geometer Daina Taimina to make wooly reefs, with the aim of drawing attention to the menace that climate change poses to the world’s coral reefs. Hyperbolic crochet is a method of fabricating models of hyperbolic geometry, a kind of non-Euclidean geometric space characterized by negative curvature. Many...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

... there exists a prohibition on mixing the types, and that the two core types themselves (geometry and arithmetic) are mutually intertwined using notions of hierarchy, foreignness, and priority. The author concludes that whatever incidental biases it may display, mathematics also contains an essential bias...

... . DANIEL COTTOM Orifices Extended in Space At the center of the painting, or at once everywhere and nowhere, geometry is mortified. Hung ever so slightly off kilter, its right wing curling toward...

... with an analysis of Rivers Solomon’s The Deep and its speculative imaginings of what holding and touch might offer us. [email protected] © 2024 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2024 Black hold Black holes Black sexuality geometry slave ship...

... . 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...

... that are used to comprehend conditions where this subject is neither originating nor present. In this essay I will not pretend to solve the conditions of modern spatiality, nor to undertake the critique of post-Lacanian optics necessary to reconstrue the "geometries" of psychical space. Rather I want to look...

... Wrote the Bible? San Francisco: Harper, 1987 . Gabriel, Richard. Gods of Our Fathers . Westport, ct: Greenwood, 2002 . Heller-Roazen, Daniel. “Speaking in Tongues.” Paragraph 25 ( 2002 ): 92 -115. Husserl, Edmund. Origin of Geometry . Trans. Jacques Derrida. Lincoln: u of Nebraska p...

... they present for queer theory is, still, that black women’s sexuality, rather than being “structured along an axis of normal and perverse paralleling that of white women,” operates according to the laws of what Evelynn Hammonds calls a “different geometry,” a mathematics we have yet to master (139). 8...

... . Derrida, Jacques. Edmund Husserl's Origin of Geometry: An Introduction . Trans. John P. Leavey. Lincoln: u of Nebraska p, 1989 . Deuber-Mankowsky, Astrid. Der Frühe Walter Benjamin und Hermann Cohen: Jüdische Werte, Kritische Philosophie, vergängliche Erfahrung . Berlin: Verlag Vorwerk 8, 2000...

... from definition as a number while still offering a definition of magnitudes by which it belongs to the “genre” of number. The zero, as de Man expands upon its brief appearance in Pascal’s text, correlates with geometry’s nondefinition of its own initial principles and the lack of any demonstrable...

..., as it were, the diagonal lines he can lay out in the social fabric allow these virtualities to come to light” (Foucault qtd. in Bersani 641–42 ). Homosexuals aren’t so much the heroes as they are the as-yet-unrealized. Their position is less sovereign and more a kind of geometry: not accidental...