The fabric of our memories

Leather, kinship, and queer material history

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8090142
AutoresN Van Doorn (0000-0002-7379-8661, University of Amsterdam, autor de correspondencia)
Año2015
Volumen9
Número1
Páginas85-98
Fecha de publicación2015-12-28
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMemory Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1750-6980 • E-ISSN: 1750-6999
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1750698015613975
OpenAlexW2383568170
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas19

This article examines how the practices of self-preservation and other-directed care within Baltimore’s gay leather community are entangled with the material fabric of leather. I argue that leather forms a mnemonic technology that mediates between intimate experience and collective memory, thereby enabling leathermen to develop affective attachments to both the past and the future of their shared form of life. Ultimately, my aim is to attend to the relation between memory and materiality, asking how the material qualities of leather, as treated animal skin, evoke, store, and shape memories and, vice versa, how such memories imbue leather items with emotional, cultural, and political values

Aesthetics · Art · Cognitive psychology · Collective memory · Kinship · Materiality (auditing · Mnemonic · Political science · Politics · Queer · Sociology · Anthropology · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · Law · Psychology