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QED : A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking
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- Introduction to "Queer Healing and Transformative Justice": A Special
Issue of QED-
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Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic and international protests of the violences of the prison industrial complex (PIC) have put matters of health, safety, and healing at the forefront of social justice struggles. Prison abolitionists around the world are asking: How do we dismantle systems of oppression foundational to carceral institutions within which and from which we find ourselves needing to heal' Or as Adaku Utah, Nigerian healer and liberation educator, prompts: how do we "create systems and structures that build wellness, safety, care, and power and depend less on the state and systems of violence' What do we need to transform in ourselves and in our organizations to build this kind of world'"1 (emphasis added) These ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-03-25T00:00:00-05:00
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- Depathologization as Healing Justice
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Abstract: In order to examine these topics, we met in May and June 2021 in a roundtable conversation format. The participants were:(they/them) is a Black queer and trans anti-violence scholar-activist living with chronic illness and disability. Their research and organizing focuses on antiviolent and decolonial responses to criminalization, social exclusion, and interpersonal harms. Although originally from Brooklyn, NY, SM currently lives in London, and works in the Department of Gender Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science. They are the author of The Economies of Queer Inclusion: Transnational Organizing for LGBTI Rights in Uganda (Lexington Books, 2019).(they/them) is a neuroqueer trans fatty ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-03-25T00:00:00-05:00
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- Black Trans Girlhood, Healing, and Transformative Justice in Akwaeke
Emezi's PET-
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Abstract: Content warning: child abuse, rape, and graphic violence.What does a Black trans girl know about healing, revolution, and transformative justice' In the fantasy/speculative fiction young adult novel PET (2019) by Igbo and Tamil agender writer and artist Akwaeke Emezi, she knows a lot about them. The world of PET honors her wisdom—she who heals and transforms her world, and she who is supported by Black people and community. Indeed, Emezi conjures up a world where the Black trans girl has an important role to play in multiple generations of Black life, from childhood to old age. In writing such a protagonist for YA literature, Emezi refuses the "racial innocence" and hetero- and cisnormativity intrinsic to the white ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-03-25T00:00:00-05:00
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- Entangled Genders: Unraveling Transformative Justice in the Early
Childhood Classroom-
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Abstract: Content Warning: TransphobiaThe early childhood classroom setting is one of the first major social institutions that normalizes carcerality to young children.1 Early play will echo the impact of dominant culture on imagination and childhood. Already at age two, children begin to enforce beliefs and decisions which are rooted in anti-Black, racist, transphobic, homophobic, and patriarchal violence—policing anything that leans too far outside the margin.2 The need to label and reject that which is unfamiliar reifies U.S. culture's obsession with criminalizing the marginalized. These harmful, violent ideologies will grow with us if there is no intervention. Jackson and Meiners discuss this internalization of the ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-03-25T00:00:00-05:00
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- Don't Count on Us Dying: Carceral Accuracy and Trans-of-Color Life Beyond
Hate Crimes-
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Abstract: Hate crimes laws thus legally articulate the value of transgender people's lives, even as this articulation of inclusion is produced by and through their deaths. Simultaneously, hate crimes legislation contributes to a broader biopolitical imperative to manage poor people and people of color by channeling them into a massive carceral project. …It is important to distinguish between rallying for the inclusion of transgender identity as a unique legally protected group under hate crimes statutes—the distinctive representation of anti-trans hate crimes data points—versus the collective labor of figuring out how best to narrate anti-trans violence in order to change the material conditions for the benefit of trans ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-03-25T00:00:00-05:00
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- Research as a Practice of Collective Care and Resistance: A Roundtable
Conversation with Transmasculine Health Justice: Los Angeles-
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Abstract: Transmasculine Health Justice: Los Angeles (TMHJ:LA) is an initiative of Gender Justice Los Angeles, a grassroots organization led by and for trans, gender nonconforming, two-spirit, Black, Indigenous, People of Color. The organization's mission includes resisting oppression, developing community responses to violence, and healing from present and historical trauma. TMHJ:LA was created in 2016 to use cultural arts and participatory action research to combat the erasure and invisibility of trans men and transmasculine people in public health planning and services in Los Angeles County. We began, and have since organized, as a majority transmasculine, queer, and Black, Indigenous, People of Color team of researchers ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-03-25T00:00:00-05:00
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- Stay Mad: A Love Letter to QTBIPOC Psychiatric Survivors
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Abstract: Content warning: ableism, sanism, institutionalization, and medical gaslighting"Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge."My Comrades,I do not know the context or conditions that led to your survival, institutionalization, incarceration, or isolation from our people. I do not know your story, pain, or struggle. I do not know who has harmed you or who you have harmed—because yes, we have all caused harm, though most of us, myself included, are good at burying this fundamental truth. I extend my love and care for all you have endured and all you are holding. For every name you have been called, every hostile hand laid upon you, every lie you swallowed with your morning pills or prayers. For every time you ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-03-25T00:00:00-05:00
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- Dear abled america
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Abstract: after danez smith, after raymond antrobus, after simon mandrellcontent warning: police brutality ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-03-25T00:00:00-05:00
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- No Justice, No Peace: Queer Afghans in Life and Death, from Home to
Diasporas-
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Abstract: Content warning: death, mourning, exile, warQais completes wrapping Wazina within her kafan, burial shroud. Photo credit:
Authors .In May 2016, while I was attending my first LGBTQ+ Muslim Retreat in the United States, I was looking for familiar faces and those with similar backgrounds as mine: Afghan, Muslim, refugee, queer. I found them all except for the Afghan part. On the very first day of the conference after a long day of attending workshops, I rested my head on one of the new friend's lap as everyone was sitting in a healing circle, talking, sharing their stories and laughing. The languages spoken in this circle varied from English to Urdu, Arabic, Bengali, and Farsi. I was yearning for someone who would ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-03-25T00:00:00-05:00
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- (in betweens of healing)
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Abstract: Content warning: Islamophobia, war ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-03-25T00:00:00-05:00
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- Queer(ing) Healing: Reimagining Wellness through Drama Therapy during the
Dual Pandemics-
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Abstract: During 2020, two nonbinary drama therapists meet on Zoom to explore queer(ing) drama therapy. Each represents different intersectional identities, yet both envision a decolonized, queer methodology that transcends current limitations in drama therapy practice. Their resulting dual reflections are separated by a series of asterisks. The North American Drama Therapy Association defines drama therapy as the intentional use of drama and/or theatre processes to achieve therapeutic goals.1 Through variations of methodologies like play, storytelling, role theory, projection, and witnessing, drama therapy creates several threads of possibilities across the spectrum of healing.(c, a 29-year-old queer Filipino cultural ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-03-25T00:00:00-05:00
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- Solace in the Stars: Queer Astrology, Capitalism, and Colonialism
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Abstract: In an article entitled "Who Needs Astrology," which borrows its title from Stuart Halls's essay, "Who Needs 'Identity,'"1 Tabitha Prado-Richardson posits that the resurgent appeal of contemporary astrology lies in its capacity to hold "both optimism and pessimism depending on emotional necessity."2 Although queer theories of the early oughts valorized entropic force, scheming spectacular ends to futuristic thinking and positing asociality as an organizing politics, astrology stages a stubbornly relational and anticipatory frame—not optimism, necessarily, but an understanding that good things can still happen despite the sinking sensation that things are only getting worse. This partially utopic frame explains the ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-03-25T00:00:00-05:00
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- Embodied Digital Ecologies: A Healing Justice Analysis of How to Survive
the End of the World-
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Abstract: "Our podcast about learning from apocalypse with grace, rigor and curiosity."So begins the refrain of the podcast, How to Survive the End of the World (HSEW) hosted by queer Black sisters, adrienne maree and Autumn Brown. The hosts, who share the identities of being writers, healing justice practitioners and organizers, decided to begin their podcast in November 2017, to center what must be known and practiced for living, existing, and resisting interlocking forms of social oppression. The hosts argue that they and the larger world are living through apocalyptic moments such as climate change, racial terror, queer and trans antagonism, and the violences of capitalism. HSEW would grow to have over 100,000 unique ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-03-25T00:00:00-05:00
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- A Tendr Scene: VR as Visionary Reality, Prototyping Radical Care and Queer
Futurities-
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Abstract: Content warning: identity-based and medical violence, traumaAn excerpt from a virtual reality teleplay that's been transformed into IRL blueprints for a QTBIPoC mental health respite center+ A crip love letter/fantastical rendering of a first date indefinitely postponed by star-crossed metaphysical planes/grief therapy poem/requiemic prayer/Ancestral offering and litany of Future wishes, this piece facilitates an ongoing process of queer healing by experimenting with time travel and VR ("Visionary Reality," remixed from Walidah Imarisha's "Visionary Fiction").Stacey Park Milbern's words and spirit make an appearance in the accessible font, Comic Sans. The excerpt of Tendr's fourth episode is included in a ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-03-25T00:00:00-05:00
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- The Magic of the Margins: Rethinking Healing from the Perspective of Queer
Exile-
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Abstract: In her poem "A Litany for Survival,"1 Audre Lorde proclaims we were never meant to survive. This "we" is ambiguous. She speaks of "those who live at the shoreline, standing upon the constant edges of decision, crucial and alone," those who "love in doorways coming and going, in the hours between dawns, looking inward and outward," and those who "were imprinted by fear," But we know she herself is included; Black, lesbian, survivor, and warrior. She speaks of those who exist on the margins, in a liminal space. Such marginal existence compels us to pose questions: Will their troubled existence give space for their dreams to be fulfilled' For their love to be seen' To heal'This liminal space and these margins hold ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-03-25T00:00:00-05:00
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- Survivors "Surviving Well" and "Surviving Poorly": Reflections on the
Limitations and Possibilities of Transformative Justice-
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Abstract: Content warning: familial child sexual abuse, intimate partner violence, minimization and denial of survivors' experiences, criminalizationAmid the uprisings of 2020 and the ongoing global pandemic, social workers saw how systemic antiblack violence continues to harm Black communities as well as the richness of Black abolitionist communities envisioning anticarceral futures. At the same time, we were reminded that police violence "stems from the very function of policing to enforce an unjust racial order."1 One of the common demands made in response to prison abolition was replacing police with social workers. Although I understand the call for social workers to step in rather than the police, social workers also ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-03-25T00:00:00-05:00
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- "How We Are with Each Other": Conversations on Queer Healing and Black
Liberation-
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Abstract: Charlene has worked as a local and national organization builder, organizational development facilitator, and movement infrastructure builder. Qui has worked as a healing justice practitioner, community accountability process facilitator, as well as a transformative justice practice educator and trainer. Both of our work centers a Black queer feminist lens grounded in abolition praxis. Together we sat down to reflect on how we are with each other as comrades working in movements for Black liberation; and the lessons we've learned doing that work over the past fifteen years.I've been thinking a lot about trust. So much of the conflict that we have in movement is because people don't trust each other. I don't always ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-03-25T00:00:00-05:00
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- Queer Behind the Wall: Prison Survival, Self-Love, and Community
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Abstract: Content warning: drugs, gender and sexual violence, incarceration.I was sitting in the bullpen, just a big plexiglass room with benches made to be uncomfortable, wearing the same clothes I'd had on eight months ago: a polo shirt, Aeropostale jeans, and a pair of Nikes. I was an 18-year-old white boy from the suburbs placed in there with handcuffs around my wrists, shackles around my ankles, and chains to connect it all. Me and two men were all headed to the same place, state prison. The ride was a short one, but at the same time, it was the longest ride of my life. The van that took me to state prison drove me through my hometown before getting on the highway. It would be the last time I would see it. What started ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-03-25T00:00:00-05:00
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- Prismatic Performances: Queer South Africa and the Fragmentation of the
Rainbow Nation by April Sizemore-Barber (review)-
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Abstract: What insights can we gain about post-1994 South African national identity from queer and gender-nonconforming peoples' artistic and everyday performances' What effects, and affects, do mediated representations of queer South Africans produce in audiences' In Prismatic Performances: Queer South Africa and the Fragmentation of the Rainbow Nation, April Sizemore-Barber attempts to answer these questions. The author convincingly argues that "queer embodiments, because of their ambiguous relation to the nation-state serve as unstable and prismatic lenses on the post-apartheid moment" (18). Sizemore-Barber shows that artistic, theatrical, everyday, and mediated aspects of queer individuals' and groups' performances, can ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-03-25T00:00:00-05:00
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- Brown Trans Figuration: Rethinking Race, Gender, and Sexuality in
Chicanx/Latinx Studies by Francisco J. Galarte (review)-
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Abstract: In 2019, the University of Texas Press announced the launch of a new book series: "Latinx: The Future is Now." Edited by Nicole Guidotti-Hernandez and Lorigia Garcia-Peña, the series invited authors to submit works that consider the multiple overlapping dynamics of queer and gender fluid potentialities embodied in the "x." As I read and reflect on this call, I cannot help but giggle to myself. The "x." It's tiny. A miniature coda to a word. And yet, if you have ever been privy to conversations in Latinx and Chicanx studies, you know as I do, the teeny, little "x" generates colossal controversy. And it is this dichotomy that propels my chuckling. As I continue to reflect, however, my laughter subsides into a feeling ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-03-25T00:00:00-05:00
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- Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture by Derritt Mason
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Abstract: In 1969, I'll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip, routinely credited as the first young adult (YA) novel to feature overtly gay content, was published.1 In the fifty years since then—and in the past ten years in particular—queer YA, as it is now known, has exploded in popularity, and the cultural landscape in which these works are published is unrecognizable: as we're so often told, "queer" is mainstream, apparently. In Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture, Derritt Mason argues that, despite these seismic changes, critical discourses surrounding queer YA have not evolved much since the inception of the genre. Now, as then, critics emphasize the importance of narratives that feature happy ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-03-25T00:00:00-05:00
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- Navigating Remarkable Communication Experiences of Sexual Minorities by
Yachao Li and Jennifer A. Samp (review)-
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Abstract: In his autoethnography, Tony Adams writes that coming out is "ever-present" and "never ends" because in a heteronormative society new interactions with new people require new disclosures of same-sex attraction.1 Yachao Li and Jennifer Samp take readers on a deep dive into the task of managing communication about lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) identity in Navigating Remarkable Communication Experiences of Sexual Minorites. Li and Samp provide a detailed and nuanced exploration of how LGB people manage the communication of their sexual orientation that builds on a foundation of well-executed empirical studies to support the construction of their theory of coming out message production (COMP). The book also offers ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-03-25T00:00:00-05:00
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- Deportable and Disposable: Public Rhetoric and the Making of "Illegal"
Immigrant by Lisa A. Flores (review)-
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Abstract: Lisa Flores's Deportable and Disposable discusses how public discourse reflects the constitution of Mexican identities, as they are racialized against U.S. nation-state xenophobia and economic needs. The book analyzes racialization in the early twentieth century, illustrating how Mexican migrants became "perpetually returnable," "temporary, cheap labor," understood as "deportable and disposable," while racialized into "illegality" (4). Flores explores how the tropes of "illegal alien," "zoot suiter," "bracero," and "wetback" do the "critical rhetorical work of racialization" in legal, cultural, and political practice between the 1920s and 1950s (4). Flores expertly argues "race as rhetorical" through "narratives of ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-03-25T00:00:00-05:00
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- Queering the Global Filipina Body: Contested Nationalism in the Filipina/o
Diaspora by Gina K. Velasco (review)-
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Abstract: For hegemonic discourses of representation, critical scholars have paid intense attention to the U.S. nationalism politicizing the xenophobic hierarchy of differences. Aligning with anti-essentialist frameworks of identity construction, queering the global Filipina body signifies a rhetorical space of intersectional resistance where diasporic figures are racialized, gendered, and classed to facilitate the U.S. imperialism and purify the American national identity simultaneously. Within these inter/transcultural contexts, Velasco incorporates their anti-imperialist feminist standpoints to contest the racial heteropatriarchal structure of transnational exploitation. The book uncloaks the presence of nationalist ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-03-25T00:00:00-05:00
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- Montero (Call Me by Your Name) dir. by Lil Nas X and Tanu Muino (review)
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Abstract: Whenever a new moral panic arises, I find myself turning into the infamous Church Lady from Saturday Night Live and asking: "could it be Satan'" My experiences as a queer and outcast teen metalhead made me well acquainted with the fear inspired from Satan's supposed corruptive powers. Despite not falling within the metal genre, Lil Nas X's music video for "Montero (Call Me by Your Name)" recalls many of the fantastical and Satanic themes that pervaded my youth but doing so in an indisputably queer way. Lil Nas X plays every character in the video wherein audiences are met with a narrative of oppression, castigation, and salvation through self-acceptance and love. Co-directed by Lil Nas X and Tanu Muino, the video ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-03-25T00:00:00-05:00
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