Search Results for queer-of-color critique

...Jina B. Kim Abstract Drawing together feminist- and queer-of-color critique with disability theory, this essay offers a literary-cultural reframing of the welfare queen in light of critical discourses of disability. It does so by taking up the discourse of dependency that casts racialized, low...

... materialism premised on thinking about trans embodiment outside of trans as subject position, the materialism of objects and commodities, and a historical materialism shaped by queer of color critique. Treva Ellison: The subject of a trans studies that reckons with the material violence that haunts...

... as the effect not only of queer studies but also other fields of inquiry, such as women of color feminism, queer of color critique, or queer diasporas.4 Hence critical attentions are drawn to the governing logics of knowledge...

...” as national, communal, or domestic space outside a logic of blood, purity, authenticity, and patrilineal descent. The notion of a queer diaspora resonates with Roderick Ferguson’s framing of a “queer of color critique.” While...

..., inspires us to revisit briefly a polemic otherwise (somewhat gratefully) absent from these pages. We refer to the so-called antirelational thesis in queer theory, especially insofar as it inspired a particularly trenchant response from queer of color critique. In some ways, the invitation that objectless...

... derided for its lack of theoretical texture and hamfistedness, queer-­of-­color critique, associated with schol- ars like Muñoz and myself — this catastrophic event laid bare for me the critical as well as emotional stakes of keeping vital the fantastic impulse in Cruising Utopia, Muñoz’s last book...

...- ence and its theme, the more I became convinced that gay shame, if used in an uncritical way, was for, by, and about the white gay men who had rejected feminism and a queer of color critique and for whom, therefore, shame was still an active rubric of identification...

... critique. Significantly, for Roderick A. Ferguson, who is often credited with inventing the term, queer-of-color critique is not just a rejection of the normative categories of canonical queer theory and canonical sociology but a critique of historical materialism as well. 27 Thus, queer-of-color...

... good on the understanding of norma- tivity as variegated, striated, contradictory. Queer of color critique, an good on the emergent and open-ended task as well as an awkward if provisional name, takes the prismatic pressures...

..., and queer of color critique. 1 At other moments, the two fields act as if the one does not exist at all for the other, not least because of queer investments in ongoing settler colonialism on the one side and an Indigenous commitment to illegibility and outright refusal of recognition on the other...

... new or long-standing directions in queer studies, such as subjectless and queer of color critique, or, if not, what other frameworks resonate and why? El-Tayeb: My responses here and my larger research grapple with the question of pragmatism and radicalism: How much do we internalize the risk...

... infamously by Adorno’s essay on jazz and black aural culture. 4 Yet queer-of-color critique has continually reminded us of how the centrality of pleasure in, of, and for the culture industry (and even capital) in providing the very means of survival. Put more simply, queers of color remind us...

... “queer of color critique,” a critical methodology that demands intersecting analyses of race, economy, gender, and sexuality in projects of intellectual and polit- ical reform.11 Queer of color critique, as part of its larger...

.... Roderick A. Ferguson is an associate professor of race and critical the- ory in the Department of American Studies at the University of Minne- sota, Twin Cities. He is the author of Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique (University of Minnesota Press, 2004...

... GLQ issue on “Queer Studies and the Crises of Capitalism,” Marxism and political-economic analysis have long been deployed in the foundational texts of the study of sexuality. Moreover, queer of color critique “ups the ante on traditional approaches to economic questions.” 6 Despite this, how have...

... aspects of discrimination, as women, as people of color, as poor people, as cross-­gendered people, and as sexual subver- sives.”45 This broad conception of marginality asks how abjection and subordination are themselves queer formations experienced...

... emerges in conversation with queer-of-color critique and its study of affect and feelings of (non)belonging. I evoke José Esteban Muñoz's claim of Brownness's feeling off as a shared and transmitted feeling, to expose the affective distress caused by debilitation. My adoption of debility, thus...

...: Beacon, 2003). 8. Ibid., 179. 9. Roderick Ferguson, Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004). 10. Samuel Delany, Times...

...- cussion of neoliberal political economies of the family to pursue a “queer of color” critique of his petition for asylum. In Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique, the theorist Roderick Ferguson argues...

... and targeted bodies” of queer and gender-nonconforming people—especially people of color—who have not been seen as workers but who work nonetheless in a range of service jobs. 53 This new organizing can create new relations among workers. Restaurant work, for example, is divided. There are those who...