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#MeToo: A Biography
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  Abstract: Hashtags, like humans and animals, have biographies. Anthropologist Igor Kopytoff suggests that some of the same questions relevant to a person's biography can be explored in considering the life cycle of a nonhuman subject:What, sociologically, are the biographical possibilities inherent in its "status" and in the period and culture, and how are these possibilities realized' Where does the thing come from and who made it' What has been its career so far, and what do people consider to be an ideal career for such things' What are the recognized "ages" or periods in the thing's "life," and what are the cultural markers for them' How does the thing's use change with its age, and what happens when it reaches the end ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-11-04T00:00:00-05:00
Micro-disclosures for Macro-erasures: #MeToo in the Academy
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  Abstract: My first sexual harasser in the academy, known to my friends as "Professor Creepy," was finally taken down by #MeToo, more than a decade after I reported his behavior. I had heard rumors to this effect, but confirmation came in a roundabout way from Professor Creepy himself. In 2021, I was driving back to Boston from a campus visit at Dartmouth College when my phone rang. I accepted the call without looking at my phone. It was him. More than a decade after being his student, I was a tenured professor who had just interviewed for a new job that could transform my research, yet at the mere sound of his voice, I panicked. Just like when I was a new graduate student and first realized that the professor I had long ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-11-04T00:00:00-05:00
#MeToo Storytelling: Confession, Testimony, and Life Writing
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  Abstract: I had told my story many times; but with loved ones I told censored versions. In court I could only speak through questions others asked me. . . . For the first time I would be telling my version of the story.Chanel Miller's 2016 victim impact statement is an early example of the frank survivor speech about sexual violence that defines #MeToo. In the San Jose, California courtroom where Brock Turner was convicted of sexually assaulting her, she addressed him directly: "You don't know me, but you've been inside me, and that's why we're here" (qtd. in Baker). Miller's statement, shared with her permission on BuzzFeed, went viral, previewing the networks through which millions would share #MeToo in October 2017 and ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-11-04T00:00:00-05:00
Reproducing and Resisting Sexual Violence: Narrative, Genre, and Power
Structure in Fang Siqi's First Love Paradise
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  Abstract: Being able to narrate sexual violence has been deemed crucial for a victim to expose the perpetrator, reclaim autonomy, and accumulate strength to fight against the crime. In the recent international feminist movement, the #MeToo movement, personal accounts of sexual violence and narrative solidarity have generated a powerful dynamic for the rapid spread of the movement, along with creating epistemological and institutional changes in society. While the transformative agency of such narratives has been much celebrated and discussed, relatively less attention has been paid to certain forms of narrative as a central part of the social, cultural, and ideological structures that underpin patriarchy and misogyny, which ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-11-04T00:00:00-05:00
Sex, Violence, and Memoir: David Wojnarowicz's Close to the Knives
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  Abstract: A cobbling together of both previously published and new essays, zines, and stream-of-consciousness personal narrative, David Wojnarowicz's Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration (1991) is a disorienting, viscerally collective account of a community fighting to love and survive in New York in the 1980s and early 1990s.1 It is both a catalog of the violences of the first decade of the AIDS crisis and an intensely loving portrait of the gay male sexual subcultures of the same era. Close to the Knives is a memoir, by its own account, even as it takes a form largely unrecognizable as such. Penned by the New Jersey-born queer visual artist and activist David Wojnarowicz (1954–1992), who died of AIDS-related ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-11-04T00:00:00-05:00
"If it didn't hurt so bad, I'd kill myself, but I'll let Ed Buck do it for
now": #Justice4Gemmel and Black Queer Narratives in the Age and Afterlife
of #MeToo
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  Abstract: "He liked to be in new places and be where nobody knew him and, you know, be the boy that was mysterious. He didn't talk very much. . . ."Gemmel Artae "Juelz" Moore was the oldest of five biological siblings, the right-hand man to his single mother, and generally a private person. He was a member of the Los Angeles ballroom community, where he walked in the categories "school boy" and "pretty boy." He was a fierce competitor, funny, and loyal. On July 27, 2017, LGBT rights activist and Democratic Party donor Edward Buck killed Gemmel. In contrast to the descriptors his friends and family might use, in the news media Gemmel became known as a young Black drug addict (Parry) and male escort (Harriot; Carbone; Cullen). ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-11-04T00:00:00-05:00
Disability and Sexual Assault in Public(s): Performance/Nebula
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  Abstract: This montage essay investigates elliptical fractured storytelling modes around the disruption of my bodily being, and around a court case of sexual assault—my own. In a nutshell, in this case's his(story), I am a wheelchair-using disabled woman who was sexually assaulted, and my status as disabled became a crucial point for the prosecutor and officers (or narrators) of court. What "disabled" means in our wider shared culture came back to me as an assault in its own right: an easy target, a victim, helpless, can't run away, without access to sex maybe, so thus even asking for it. I heard these stories in the words of men around me, and they doubled down on the insult my body received at the hands of my attacker.Many ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-11-04T00:00:00-05:00
"We Grew Up in This Movement": A Conversation between Salamishah Tillet
and Scheherazade Tillet
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  Abstract: For this special #MeToo issue of Biography, writer and activist Salamishah Tillet and photographer and organizer Scheherazade Tillet engaged in a lively and in-depth conversation about their work to end sexual violence before and beyond #MeToo. In 2003, the Tillet sisters founded A Long Walk Home, a nonprofit that empowers young people to use art to end violence against girls and women. A Long Walk Home was, and remains, one of the few organizations led by Black women dedicated to working with survivors and preventing sexual assault and interpersonal violence. Yet their actual organizing work began five years earlier when Scheherazade, at twenty years old, began documenting Salamishah's healing after being sexually ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-11-04T00:00:00-05:00
The Afterlives of #MeToo: A Roundtable Discussion with Māhealani Ahia,
Michelle Cho, Pallavi Guha, Régine Michelle Jean-Charles, Kahala Johnson,
and Ever E. Osorio
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  Abstract: One of the risks of a special issue with US-based editors and with a topic overwhelmingly identified not only with the United States but also with aﬄuent white women is that conversations might neglect the expertise of scholars focused on Indigeneity and the majority of the world. The diverse scholars who contribute to this roundtable—while by no means covering every region in which #MeToo activism has taken place—decenter the US in exploring #MeToo discourse, and blend discussions of medium in activism, solidarity, and cultural specificity in relation to their own stories.How has medium, mediation, and (re)mediation played a role in #MeToo in the national or Indigenous communities you study' Was social media ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-11-04T00:00:00-05:00