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..., in particular the grammars of they , kiki / Ky-Ky , and fem and stud travel within and shape language and expressive culture? If the Black queer and Black vernacular overlap, how do we look to the creative influences of Black queer and Black trans historical symmetries and exchanges? Reexamining historical...

... for teaching audiences how to perceive a body, thereby facilitating the movement of a body into the grammar of a sex/gender system. Second, with these aerial apparatuses testing the boundaries of gravity, space, and time, the aerialist Lulu specifically tested the boundaries of a sex/gender system to create...

... discusses what Brathwaite‐Shirley's world‐building practice offers to the project of t4t. Through specific game mechanics and robust contributions to the visual grammars of transness, the works in question help visualize and map relationality through t4t. [email protected] Copyright © 2025 by Duke...

... interested, in these pages, in how Acker utilizes words and language as a modality of nonnormativity. For her to be “against ordinary language,” as an essay (Acker 1993 ) of hers asserts, is, I argue, or rather bears, a trans relationship to the very grammar of language, which might be construed...

... an irreducible relationship to poetics as a mode of knowing. The modern world—its teleological thought, its fixed localities, its division of white/European male subjects from their “others”—privileges determinacy as a mode of knowing. If we follow the path set by Spillers's American grammar (1987, 2003...

... shores will allow: the familiar forms of life that an ‘American grammar’ of power and marginality, visibility and invisibility, identity and difference, normativity and nonnormativity, being and becoming can help you make out.” She goes on to ask, “When we do the critique that we do so well, do we...

... alone, we constitute ourselves within grammar. To paraphrase Judith Butler, “I” still cannot speak “apart from the grammar that establishes my availability to you” ( 1999 : xxiv; see also Stone 1991 ). Grammar signs gender as well as race, age, dis/ability, social status. The speaker is never...

... a tendency to mix Italian and English and produce new words (a funny example being barballa : farfalla + butterfly ). Yet, what I didn't realize growing up is that this mix was not only happening at word level. It was also working on syntax and grammar, making language less a mode of communication than...

... to reassess the boundaries of transness. In “We Got Issues” they assert, “Black/womanist/Africana feminist thought provides ‘grammars’ for articulating gender that exceed the rubrics of biology/biocentrism or social artifice. Careful attention to the debates in the field opens up ways for reading transness...

... – 41 . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Spillers Hortense J. 1987 . “ Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book .” Diacritics 17 , no. 2 : 65 – 81 . https://doi.org/10.2307/464747 . Stanley Eric A. 2011 . “ Introduction: Fugitive Flesh: Gender Self...

... shade . Spilling tea . These turns of phrase have now been appropriated by the American grammar. Still, if you listen closely, these words come alive, flowing through the language of the children who talk and live too fiercely; they improvise choreography, polyrhythmic beats, and elaborate outfits...

...-indulgence that others may offer me in language, and my desire to resignify the grammar of gender is also self-indulgent: both make room for a different reading of our selves. This self-indulgence requires a shared commitment to a certain rendering of futurity that hinges on a remaking of language; I must...

..., and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Spillers Hortense 2007 . “ ‘Whatcha Gonna Do?’ Revisiting ‘Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book.’ ” WSQ 35 , nos. 1–2 : 299 – 309 . Terrefe Selamawit . 2016 . “ What...

... to the infinite/divine taking on the “garb” of finitude, of the world as we see it; a container, outside language. Using this Jewish grammar of enclothement, I could create a series of performance garments as a fabulation of the skin. The woven pieces give flow, drape, and porousness to rigid, angular...

... interchangeable with it. However, according to Spanish grammar rules, the n is removed when the prefix is used to denote a place situated detrás or behind the space designated by the base word. 3 I bring up this onerous detail because it both emphasizes the spatiality of the prefix and elucidates...

... on the shores of Lake Michigan, that mark the trail of travelers across the lands of her old and my new home country. Here is an embodied living grammar, of living well, bent. As a poet writing in Anishinaabemowin today I constantly think and then write first in the language of the place, in the way...

... itself; cisgender is a fabrication that obscures itself and presents as natural. In the essay “RE: [No Subject],” Bey compiles a series of email exchanges that explore the violence of meaning making through gendering. They write, “We are corralled into confining grammars of surveillance, policing...

... trans engagement with Hopkinson's work, in which the “self,” the “body,” and the “flesh” are central grammars at the nexus of Jacky's being. Of course, a call of the flesh dictates an engagement with Hortense Spillers's seminal work “Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book...

... grammar. Presented as a series of personal letters, Qiu's genre-bending novel from 1996 features sentences that run together or stop abruptly. Chapters may be read in any order, and there's no beginning, middle, or end. And while the book's main voices seem to belong to the same person (a moody, alienated...

... into view. We have attended to a diverse array of entry points: through memory, social movements, visual and popular culture, and, perhaps most importantly, Black feminism. To draw on the language of Hortense Spillers ( 1987 ), Black/womanist/Africana feminist thought provides “grammars...