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Letter From Palestine: Resistance through Storytelling in Refaat Al-Areer’s “If I Must Die”
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Placing Gender: Exploring Queerness, Rurality, and Non-Normative Gender Experiences
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Connecting With Older Queer Filipinos Through Kuwento: Toward an Intergenerational Queer and Decolonial Qualitative Research Methods
No full textThis article draws from my research with the older queer Filipinos where I used kuwento during data collection. Kuwento is the cultural mode of communication among Filipinos in the diaspora. I am capable of using kuwento since I identify with the queer and trans Filipino community as well. Kuwento enables genuine connection with the older queers in my community. This article shows an example of how I applied kuwento in participant observation and in individual face-to-face interviews. Kuwento enables both myself and the participants to explicitly embody our social locations, thereby, disengaging with the dominant positivist Western values of neutrality, objectivity, and non-emotionality. Through kuwento, participants’ intimate stories of queer sexualities were expressed rather than concealed by expectations of respectability and civility. Consequently, the interaction became an intergenerational queer conversation: it created an intimate space of connection among queer subjects of varying generations. I consider this intergenerational queer conversation as a decolonial move because it challenges the normative epistemologies embedded in doing interviews and participant observation to allow racialized queer stories to counter the dominant narratives of aging and migration. Ultimately, this article highlights racialized queers’ resistance against dominant research epistemologies via a diasporic queer sociolinguistic practice.
Collected Essays in Speculative Philosophy, by James Bradley, ed. Sean J. McGrath, Edinburgh University Press, 2021
No full textJames Bradley was an Anglo-British philosopher who spent his professional career teaching at Memorial University of Newfoundland from 1988 to his untimely death from cancer in 2012. Though his written output is not as substantial as many of his contemporaries, he has nonetheless achieved, through reputation and a fecundity of ideas, something of an iconic status in the idealist community in Canada. Dominican University College awarded him an honorary doctorate posthumously. This collection of essays, long time in the making and edited by his protégé Sean J. McGrath, will be the litmus test for the staying power of Bradley’s speculative philosophy in the coming years. The Bradley Memorial Lectures or the James Bradley Lectureship, which began at Memorial University in October 2012, is an ongoing annual event, or at least it was until the beginning of the pandemic