Citing Bar Event #5 – compost yo! neuro-emergent (Excerpt from Liya Yu, 2022, Vulnerable Minds: The Neuropolitics of Divided Societies, XXVI) Burden on minorities’ shoulders to initiate these conversations, history mimicking itself in this cruel intimacy between dehumanizer and dehumanized, but also with a glimmer of hope that new insights and tools are available to the dehumanized to turn to the tables around in their favor. As I came out of that building, I became hyperaware of my surroundings, as I would again weeks later during election week, when the whole countryside was whirring and overflowing with...
Jennifer Hamilton and Astrida Neimanis We propose that feminist studies are particularly well-situated to analyse the paradox of what ‘we humans’ want as we gaze into the eyes of planetary catastrophe. The contributions in the special issue evoke tensions between a capitalist imperative to consume, activist calls for resistance, and queer feminist figurations of sex and longing. Asking in turn what we as editors want from the project of feminist environmental humanities, we respond: (1) we want to spark new relations between desire and demand from within environmental crisis; (2) we want a fulsomely feminist environmental humanities; (3) we want...
Holly Pester This essay is the product of thinking, researching and singing lullabies. As a practitioner-researcher in Hubbub, Holly Pester led a series of workshops that experimentally and collaboratively explored lullabies through conversation and improvised song. This led to an expanded project where Holly invited artists and musicians to collaborate on a col-lection of new lullabies, created through friendship and improvisation. The thoughts and provocations within this chapter represent the politics and ideas that have motivated this project. Keywords: Care, Creative criticism, Lullaby, Narrative, Protest song, Reproductive work Copyright Pester, H. (2016). Songs of Rest: An Intervention in the Complex...
This compendium takes up a series of concepts as a means to think them newly from the contemporary time and place of “the bed,” where the bed is a temporal and geographical (non)location central to sick and disabled queer (SDQ) bodies and life. Excerpted from a larger project-in-progress, this article, in part, proceeds from Lugones’s 1987 essay “Playfulness, ‘World’-Travelling, and Loving Perception.” It strives toward articulating a decolonial feminist epistemology that is informed by queer of color, sick and disabled phenomenology and material life. We are compelled by what we might name as the work of queering and the work...