Beyond 90°

The Angularities of Black/Queer/Women/Lean

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4517154
AutoresKemi Adeyemi (University of Washington)
Año2019
Volumen29
Número1
Páginas9-24
Fecha de publicación2019-01-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaWomen & Performance a journal of feminist theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0740-770X • E-ISSN: 1748-5819
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0740770x.2019.1571861
OpenAlexW2911894824
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas25

This essay argues for detailed attention to the materiality of black queer women's spatial coordinates, the literal points of contact with the surfaces we traverse, as sites where categories of race, gender, and sexuality are disciplined and negotiated. It does so through a brief history of how Man's 90° relationship to the ground, a verticality and perpendicularity that valorizes a physical comportment that is also the structuring condition for one's political capacities, is produced by enforcing black and indigenous subjects to the ground, invariably defining the categories of Otherness as 0° and 180°. Through a reading of Rashaad Newsome's performance Shade Compositions, the author argues a reading of the angles that exceed 0°/90°/180° may provide paths for reorienting the possibilities of black queer presence in the field of the political. If 90° signals a delimited political field, then, one governed by notions of rational civility that are always exclusive of black and black queer bodies, might the angularities surrounding, say, 120° reveal sites of productive incivility that are inextricable from the lives, experiences, and certainly bodies of black queer women themselves

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