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Lawrence LeShan’s Clairvoyant Reality as William James’ Revelation of Veridical Reality
Get PDFThe “Clairvoyant Reality” of pioneering psychologist Lawrence LeShan and medium Eileen Garrett, reprinted here in honor of LeShan’s recent passing at age 100, may well be the understanding of “veridical reality” that James proclaimed would not be found “in this generation or the next”
Gather
No full textJoin the Deep Water Initiative and the graduate program of Ecology, Spirituality, and Religion at the California Institute of Integral Studies for a screening of the award-winning film Gather as part of the 2021 Religion & Ecology Online Summit. This year\u27s Summit is titled, Indigenous Lifeways, Cosmologies & Ecology: Connecting to Past, Restor(y)ing Present & Future. Indigenous approaches to biocultural stewardship and sacred sites offer insights into the inquiry of Religion and Ecology, which explores how spiritual beliefs and practices affect the natural world. The film Gather is a beautifully personal portrayal of this theme, in its demonstration of Indigenous approaches to food sovereignty. This screening is open to all registered Summit participants. If you would like to attend this screening please register for the Summit before confirming your ticket for the screening on this page.
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A Meta-synthesis of Lavender Languages
No full textThe Lavender languages and linguistics (Lavlang) conference is entering its 27th year, and in that time the field of lavender / LGBTQ+ linguistics and language studies has greatly grown and expanded over these years. However, since the start of the conference there have been only a few systematic examinations of the field and conference, most recently Baker’s corpus analysis (2014). Here, meta-synthesis was used to examine increasing body of qualitative work in Lavlang and introduce a new methodology to our field. Meta-synthesis is a systematic review and integration of findings of a field (Lachel et al, 2018), and has been used in various fields (Nursing, clinical psychology, medical research, and others), and is well suited methodological tool further research in LGBTQ+ language and linguistic topics
Research questions • What are major threads / themes within Lavender languages and linguistics • What impact has the conference had on the greater linguistics community • What are blind spots within the lavender languages and linguistics conference.
The abstracts from Lavlang were collected from the 2nd to 26th conference. Any abstracts which were unreadable or unrecoverable were excluded. Then each of the abstracts were coded and recorded in a coding book for their: author, institution, major themes, possible publication, and citation amount. Once the coding was complete, the themes were grouped together in natural categories; once the categories were established, a random selection of abstracts were then re-coded for reliability. These categories were then used to construct the major threads of lavlang, while additionally showing where blind spots exist. The impact of the conference, each abstract was tracked for whether it was published, where it was, and who has cited it, this will show the spread of ideas around our field and their propagation of the field into the larger language studies and linguistics fields.
It is hoped that the findings from this meta synthesis will help spur further research into under-examined aspects of the study of LGBTQ+ language / linguistics. As well as, demonstrating and illuminating contributions to the greater study of language which Lavlang has given to other fields
The denormativization of monoraciality
No full textMultiracial relationships have long been—and continue to be—a contested site of social, legal, and biopolitical control. As with all marked positions (Jakobson 1932, Brekhus 1998), they are viewed with ambivalence (cf. Glick & Fiske 1997, inter alia): multiracial relationships represent either/both the transcendence of racial hierarchy in the marketplace of desire (McBride 2005) or/and the convergence of fetishization and internalized racism. This paper will argue that there may be cases in which multiraciality is normal, expected, and even hegemonic—in which monoraciality has been denormativized. Specifically, it will be shown that monoracially attached Asian Americans, both queer and non-queer, are regularly met with ideologies, discourses, and even aggressions targeting the \u27baffling\u27 homoraciality of their partnerships. Principal data comes from two interviewees, subjects A and C. Subject A identifies as a queer Asian American man in a relationship with another Asian American man. This pairing is so out of the ordinary in his majority-queer social group that he and his partner are referred to as \u27the lesbian couple\u27 (cf. discourses of surprise surrounding the idea of
travesti-travesti partnerships as described in Kulick 1998). Subject A comes from an activist background and is able to chart the intersections between the anti-Asian racism, misogyny, Asian specific misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, and white supremacy that underlie these and similar remarks. Subject C identifies as a heterosexual Asian American woman in a relationship with an Asian American man. Among other things, she discusses the manner in which her relationship is in fact similar to lesbian relationships: My queer female friends have told me that telling a man who is harassing you that you have a girlfriend is often no defense. Well, having my Asian boyfriend physically present is also no defense: they either ignore him or see him as a threat they can overcome. Connections will be drawn to the ways in which conventional/hegemonic heterosexual family formation in the black community (e.g., the Obamas, the Knowles-Carters) has been portrayed as deviant and exceptional. It emerges from this work that the study of linguistic racialization is indispensable in the study of hetero- and homonormativity
Internalizing Punishment and Euphoria Related to Queer Identity
No full textIn this paper, I introduce the concept of gender performance in Youtube documentaries about and personal Youtube videos by Russian people who are transgender. I define indexicality and tactics of intersubjectivity, and discuss how these concepts function within and outside of trans communities of practice (Bucholtz and Hall, 2004; Wenger, 1998) in these videos. After connecting these concepts, I dive into language ideology and stance (Irvine and Gal, 2000; Barrett, 2014), and how they show up in the videos. Using data culled from these videos, I explore salient language ideologies regarding performance of gender by Russians who identify as trans, and how speaker stance in this data engages those ideologies. I argue that data in these videos shows that tactics of intersubjectivity extend far beyond linguistic interaction and into metaperformance of gender. When people are punished and expect to be punished through repeated instances of distinction, denaturalization, and illigitimation, they begin to subject themselves to these same patterns without an interlocutor, essentially so conditioned into hearing these responses that they reproduce them themselves. Conversely, when people expect to be affirmed through adequation, authentication, and authorization, they internalize and reproduce these affirmations. Ultimately, in Майя’s case, denaturalization from peers in her medical school community of practice (extended to self-denaturalization) and illigitimation from the state were the most common tactics of intersubjectivity reflected in her experience, whereas in Дима’s case denaturalization from their community of practice at church (again extended to self- denaturalization) was the most salient tactic of intersubjectivity reflected in their experience. However, when discussing spending time in queer communities and queer-friendly spaces where adequation, authentication and authorization were more common, people were more likely to internalize these practices. I find that though tactics of intersubjectivity are intersubjective, people may internalize and reproduce them in their thoughts about themselves
