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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (2): 124–135.
Published: 01 October 2024
...Chaz Barracks Abstract This essay presents a theory of con-artistry as a queer practice of Black joy that claims relational and material abundance in the face of tropes of deviance and conditions of austerity. Drawing on auto-theory and describes how media-making can foment Black pleasure...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (2): 136–155.
Published: 01 October 2024
... “con-artistry” as a theory of queer Black joy. This text joins Barracks's con-artistry with my conception of high-maintenance feminism, which describes a contemporary cultural movement in which Black femmes assert their value beyond the confines of respectability and demand what is due to them...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (2): 4–15.
Published: 01 October 2024
... when and where modes of inquiry and their forms of expression start and stop. Black studies, for example, assumes it plays a considerable role at the beginning of the end of the world; as such, the scholarly contributions to ecocriticism, performance studies, computing, queer theory, and abolition...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 50–83.
Published: 01 April 2022
...C.C. McKee Abstract This essay deploys Lacanian psychoanalysis and Black feminist theory to assert that the prominent use of mirrors in the paintings and sculptures of Deborah Anzinger, a contemporary Kingston-based Jamaican artist, are crucial to understanding subjectivity as inextricable from...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 16–35.
Published: 01 October 2022
....” [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Brenton Boyd 2022 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). critical phenomenology black queer theory Gothic fiction antiblackness Moonlight Figure 1. Barry Jenkins, Moonlight...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 4–24.
Published: 01 April 2023
.... There's a Disco Ball between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2022 . Amideo Emilio . Queer Tidalectics: Linguistic and Sexual Fluidity in Contemporary Black Diasporic Culture . Evanston, IL : Northwestern University Press , 2021 . Barrett Lindon...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 110–124.
Published: 01 April 2023
... Weheliye's interests in the textures of Black, BlackFem, and Black queer and gender-variant life and aesthetics as discussed in the interview, torralba offers texturality as an analytic that characterizes the scholar-critic's work. Together, the essay and interview highlight how Weheliye's oeuvre enables...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 46–59.
Published: 01 April 2023
... is inserted or moved. This understanding of removal suggests that strategic cutting is a powerful remixing technique for forging new connections with the past by modifying archival source material. 29 Looking for Langston cultivates a shared desire for, even as it also instantiates, a black queer...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 62–75.
Published: 01 April 2023
... , 2017 . Chapman Alix . “ The Punk Show: Queering Heritage in the Black Diaspora .” Cultural Dynamics 26 , no. 3 ( 2014 ): 327 – 45 . Christian Barbara . “ The Race for Theory .” Feminist Studies 14 , no. 1 ( 1988 ): 67 – 79 . Fabre Geneviève . “ The Slave Ship...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 4–13.
Published: 01 October 2022
... the protagonists of Randall Kenan's A Visitation of Spirits (1989) and Barry Jenkins's Moonlight (2016) allegorize black unbelonging. Ultimately, “A Queer Visitation” leads us to and through a Gothic phenomenology of flesh, detailing its intersections with queer theory and what Boyd calls black necromancy...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 78–97.
Published: 01 April 2023
... and mobilized. 9 In proposing a black trans aesthetic of brokenness, I wish to offer a different conceptualization and use for brokenness. This is not a rejection of the conditions described, nor is it a theory of negativity in the lineage of queer negativity or Afropessimism. I am after a theory...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (1): 107–117.
Published: 01 April 2021
...; lighting, Camal Gaiby. Featuring “Om Mani Padme Hung,” by Yungchen Lhamo. Courtesy of the artist. Changing state becomes the queer affordance of dancing in blackness. From this to that, briefly; not this nor that as the approach to dancing. Riding rhythm to change our embodied capacity and move...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (1): 44–65.
Published: 01 April 2024
... and political engagement with Wong's cinema. It highlights how the distinct Asian femininity, or ornamentalism, of Days of Being Wild (1990) and In the Mood for Love (2001) are translated into Moonlight and reinforce the film's key themes on Black queerness, especially its ontological implications for Black...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (2): 108–123.
Published: 01 October 2024
... neutrality” to reimagine what universe could alternatively mean, Black Gooey Universe resonates with queer theoretical reflections on the antiblack, racist, ableist, antitrans, and antiqueer violence of the categories of the “human” and the “universal.” 22 In particular, Eric Stanley's chapter “Death...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (2): 68–91.
Published: 01 October 2024
..., burning a Polaroid taken at Drax Hall Plantation, Barbados. Frame grab. Digital video, 2022. Courtesy of the artist. In her book Queer Times, Black Futures , Kara Keeling examines Sun Ra's project within a larger reflection on the apparent incompatibility of Black futurity with the financial...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 88–117.
Published: 01 October 2022
... . Gertsman Elina . The Dance of Death in the Middle Ages: Image, Text, Performance . Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols , 2010 Goldberg Jesse A. “ Scenes of Resurrection: Black Lives Matter Die-ins and the Here and Now of Queer Futurity .” Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 30...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (1): 66–83.
Published: 01 April 2024
... . New York : New York University Press , 2020 . Jackson Zakiyyah Iman . “ Losing Manhood: Animality and Plasticity in the (Neo)Slave Narrative .” Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences 25 , nos. 1/2 ( 2016 ): 95 – 136 . Keeling Kara . Queer Times, Black Futures...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (2): 28–45.
Published: 01 October 2023
... the Waller-Ellington collaborations, it is that Black rhythm, time, and sonicity resist being captured, stolen, and, ultimately, synched; in fact, they slip out of grasp—through multiple and conflicting visual and sonic rhythms, there for a moment and then dissipated. ■■ 1 Keeling, Queer Times...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 86–95.
Published: 01 April 2022
..., not pronouns, as much as blackness. A longing for an object that is not an object—porous as our people's people—not perceived, prior to theory, criticism, popular culture, gender, unnamed on purpose. You say: we are to make a music of our being here . A music of our people, their people's people, who...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 100–107.
Published: 01 April 2023
... that emerges in each conversation we have. Which is why we continue to have all the conversations we have, I think. This latest iteration is one of love and black study and black feminist theory and queer insurgency—all these things on the radical edge, and a whole bunch of other things, as it always is. So...
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