19 research outputs found
Staging [in]visible subjects: Blackqueer bodies, social death and performance
No full textStaging [In]visible Subjects: BlackQueer Bodies, Social Death and Performance is an examination of the ways in which death and violence operate within the lives of black/queer youth. Black/queer youth experience marginalization across several dimensions of difference (i.e. race, class, sexuality, gender, etc). Proximity from white, male, middle class, heteronormative acceptability places these youth particularly vulnerable to violence and death. Moreover, the ubiquitous nature of white supremacy, patriarchy, homophobia, and capitalism normalize the degradation and devaluation of black/queer bodies, lives, stories, and experience. This degradation often materializes in the absence of black/queer narratives and experiences. Whereas, black/queer bodies are not seen as central to black politics, cultural life and struggles, and neither are they central to current articulations of queer politics, cultural life, and struggle. The systematic premature and preventable death experienced by black/queer youth demands an expansion of current conceptualization of those who are the most vulnerable among us. Through an intersectional analysis informed by Black queer theory, Performance theory, and Black feminist theory this project explores the possibility of utilizing personal narrative and art—namely poetry and theatre—to not only understand violence operates within the lives of black/queer youth, but to reinsert their narratives and experiences back into our cultural memory and political liberatory movements and strategies.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2018-05-01The student, Durell Callier, accepted the attached license on 2016-04-04 at 16:28.The student, Durell Callier, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2016-04-04 at 16:31.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2016-04-07 at 08:35.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #9147 on 2016-07-07 at 14:16:31Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-07T21:14:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3
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Epistemological Groundings
No full text “Epistemological Groundings: Searchin’ for the Words” is an explorative journey toward mapping, understanding, and staking the authors ways of knowing. Taking up the charge, as Madison (2005), outlays to start where you are, and answer the deeply personal, spiritual, and political questions of (a) Who are you? and (b) What work do you need to do to feed your soul? The author through a series of short poems/thoughts seeks to make sense of the research process—theory, method/ology, and epistemology. Honoring his own personal history, knowledge, and the communities to which he ascribes and has an affinity for, “Epistemological Groundings” purports that not only should our research be grounded in a living practice but also this application should be socially just, life giving, and sustaining. </jats:p
Longing to be Langston
No full text This article is an autoethnodrama, which originally began as a workshop piece coming to fruition as an enacted staged reading at the University of Illinois during Fall 2011. As an ethnodrama, the article explores the author’s educational journey, pivoting around one of his fondest childhood memories reciting a Langston Hughes poem. Interwoven throughout the piece are other notable local, and global events, which occurred throughout the author’s life. Memories of reciting Langston Hughes, and his poem “Mother to Son” act as a fulcrum, moving the text from the “I” singular to the “I” universal/plural. Utilizing the methodology of autoethnodrama and other performative based methods—inclusive of but not limited to poetry, framing, and dialogue—the article reimagines and recovers the individuals’ relationship to him or herself, his or her community, and to the society at large. Through acknowledging and facing trauma, the article offers for both its author and the reader a chance for recovery through restoring healing and the wholeness of the individual, amending minority absences from educational practices, and envisioning a more just society. </jats:p
Acting out: a performative exploration of identity, healing, and wholeness
No full textThis paper examines the autoethnodrama entitled OUT, a play produced and enacted as a staged reading at the University of Illinois during Spring 2009. As an ethnodrama, OUT explores the authors reflections of reconciling his sexuality and spirituality, challenges rigid and fixed notions of coming out, and instead proffers it as a dynamic ongoing process. Utilizing the methodology of autoethnodrama and other performative based methods—inclusive of but not limited to poetry, framing, monologue, and dialogue—OUT re-imagines and recovers the queer individuals relationship to his/herself, their community, and to the society at large. Specific concepts addressed include, mystory, dramatic structures (i.e. framing, juxtaposition, polyvocality) and poetry. Anecdotes from each show, coupled with actual textual examples from the play will be utilized to illustrate the ways in which recovery—restoring healing and the wholeness of the individual—is enacted by performers, and then interpreted by those attending. Lastly, OUT through its usage of performance method, and critical engagement with Black feminists (see hooks 2004; Lorde 1984) offers for both author and reader a chance to find love, affirmation, and create whole and boundless self-identities.Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf ([email protected]) on 2010-05-06T21:38:55Z
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Gendered Violences and Queer of Color Critiques in Educational Spaces: Remembering Sakia, Carl, and Jaheem
No full textStill, nobody mean more: Engaging black feminist pedagogies on questions of the citizen and human in anti-Blackqueer times
No full textGendered Violences and Queer of Color Critiques in Educational Spaces: Remembering Sakia, Carl, and Jaheem
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