Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley
Biographic Data
| ID | 1247820 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Omise’eke Natasha |
| FAMILY NAME | Tinsley |
| SIGNATURE | TINSLEY O N |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 96 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
After The Love
In this epistolary reflection on the impact of the "Black/Queer/Diaspora" special issue, the authors reevaluate the scholarly practice of Black queer friendship, kinship, and love. Recognizing the ways "Black/Queer/Diaspora" emerged from and built many personal/professional relationships that have made this generation of Black queer scholarship possible, Tinsley asks: Why does a next generation of Black queer scholarship feel less possible now th…
Ezili’s Mirrors
Read this book like a song.No never, ever like a book of theory.Creating theory, Barbara Christian told me years ago, means "fixing a new constellation of ideas for a time at least." 1 She refused to fix constellations & so do I.This is a book in motion-in singing, falling, faltering, weeping, hip-circling, moaning, yellow-boning, following, insisting.The motion makes me dizzy sometimes, trying to sing & move at the same time.It may make you dizz…
Beyoncé in Formation: Remixing Black Feminism
Making headlines when it was launched in 2015, Omise'eke Tinsley's undergraduate course "Beyoncé Feminism, Rihanna Womanism" has inspired students from all walks of life. In Beyoncé in Formation, Tinsley now takes her rich observations beyond the classroom, using the blockbuster album and video Lemonade as a soundtrack for vital new-millennium narratives. Woven with candid observations about her life as a feminist scholar of African studies and a…
Ezili's Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders
Bridge: read this book like a song -- For the love of laveau -- Bridge: A black cisfemme is a beautiful thing -- To transcender transgender -- Bridge: Sissy Werk -- Mache Ansanm -- Bridge: My femdom, my love -- Riding the red -- Bridge: For the party girls -- It's a party -- Bridge: Baía and Marigo -- Arties's song
From Black Transgender Studies to Colin Dayan: Notes on Methodology
This reflection argues that the oeuvre of Colin Dayan provides critical tools for the elaboration of black transgender studies. Specifically, the authors analyze the trial and imprisonment of black transgender activist CeCe MacDonald using Dayan's work as a methodological model. The essay engages Dayan's work on race and gender in Haiti, History, and the Gods to elaborate a critique of how racism and transphobia become intimately intertwined in t…
"A Conversation "Overflowing with Memory
This conversation between Jafari S. Allen and Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley (with Natalie Bennett, Rosamond S. King, Rinaldo Walcott, and Michelle Wright) follows a lively debate during the Black/Queer/Diaspora Work(ing) Group symposium in 2009. This debate centered on the promise and pitfalls associated with pushing beyond disciplinary frameworks and methodological conventions toward, for example, narrative theorizing and creative responses as a leg…
"Extract from "Water, Shoulders, Into the Black Pacific
In the last twenty years, the geographic and conceptual space that Paul Gilroy dubbed the Black Atlantic-a network of transnational, transoceanic histories linking people of African descent in West Africa, the Caribbean, North America, and Europe-has emerged as the subject of deepening scholarly and creative reflections in England and the United States. But the Atlantic is by no means the only or most important body of water whose currents have m…
Songs for Ezili: Vodou Epistemologies of (Trans) gender
Black Atlantic, Queer Atlantic
What would it mean for both queer and African diaspora studies to theorize that the black Atlantic has always been a queer Atlantic? What new geography-or better, oceanography-of sexual, gendered, transnational, and racial identities might emerge through a queer reading of transoceanic dislocations between Africa and the Caribbean? This article examines canonical African diaspora and queer theoretical texts in dialogue with recently published cre…
Black Atlantic, Queer Atlantic
What would it mean for both queer and African diaspora studies to theorize that the black Atlantic has always been a queer Atlantic? What new geography-or better, oceanography-of sexual, gendered, transnational, and racial identities might emerge through a queer reading of transoceanic dislocations between Africa and the Caribbean? This article examines canonical African diaspora and queer theoretical texts in dialogue with recently published cre…
Songs for Ezili: Vodou Epistemologies of (Trans) gender
From Black Transgender Studies to Colin Dayan: Notes on Methodology
This reflection argues that the oeuvre of Colin Dayan provides critical tools for the elaboration of black transgender studies. Specifically, the authors analyze the trial and imprisonment of black transgender activist CeCe MacDonald using Dayan's work as a methodological model. The essay engages Dayan's work on race and gender in Haiti, History, and the Gods to elaborate a critique of how racism and transphobia become intimately intertwined in t…
"A Conversation "Overflowing with Memory
This conversation between Jafari S. Allen and Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley (with Natalie Bennett, Rosamond S. King, Rinaldo Walcott, and Michelle Wright) follows a lively debate during the Black/Queer/Diaspora Work(ing) Group symposium in 2009. This debate centered on the promise and pitfalls associated with pushing beyond disciplinary frameworks and methodological conventions toward, for example, narrative theorizing and creative responses as a leg…
"Extract from "Water, Shoulders, Into the Black Pacific
In the last twenty years, the geographic and conceptual space that Paul Gilroy dubbed the Black Atlantic-a network of transnational, transoceanic histories linking people of African descent in West Africa, the Caribbean, North America, and Europe-has emerged as the subject of deepening scholarly and creative reflections in England and the United States. But the Atlantic is by no means the only or most important body of water whose currents have m…
Black Atlantic, Queer Atlantic
What would it mean for both queer and African diaspora studies to theorize that the black Atlantic has always been a queer Atlantic? What new geography-or better, oceanography-of sexual, gendered, transnational, and racial identities might emerge through a queer reading of transoceanic dislocations between Africa and the Caribbean? This article examines canonical African diaspora and queer theoretical texts in dialogue with recently published cre…
Songs for Ezili: Vodou Epistemologies of (Trans) gender
"A Conversation "Overflowing with Memory
This conversation between Jafari S. Allen and Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley (with Natalie Bennett, Rosamond S. King, Rinaldo Walcott, and Michelle Wright) follows a lively debate during the Black/Queer/Diaspora Work(ing) Group symposium in 2009. This debate centered on the promise and pitfalls associated with pushing beyond disciplinary frameworks and methodological conventions toward, for example, narrative theorizing and creative responses as a leg…
"Extract from "Water, Shoulders, Into the Black Pacific
In the last twenty years, the geographic and conceptual space that Paul Gilroy dubbed the Black Atlantic-a network of transnational, transoceanic histories linking people of African descent in West Africa, the Caribbean, North America, and Europe-has emerged as the subject of deepening scholarly and creative reflections in England and the United States. But the Atlantic is by no means the only or most important body of water whose currents have m…
From Black Transgender Studies to Colin Dayan: Notes on Methodology
This reflection argues that the oeuvre of Colin Dayan provides critical tools for the elaboration of black transgender studies. Specifically, the authors analyze the trial and imprisonment of black transgender activist CeCe MacDonald using Dayan's work as a methodological model. The essay engages Dayan's work on race and gender in Haiti, History, and the Gods to elaborate a critique of how racism and transphobia become intimately intertwined in t…
Ezili’s Mirrors
Read this book like a song.No never, ever like a book of theory.Creating theory, Barbara Christian told me years ago, means "fixing a new constellation of ideas for a time at least." 1 She refused to fix constellations & so do I.This is a book in motion-in singing, falling, faltering, weeping, hip-circling, moaning, yellow-boning, following, insisting.The motion makes me dizzy sometimes, trying to sing & move at the same time.It may make you dizz…
Beyoncé in Formation: Remixing Black Feminism
Making headlines when it was launched in 2015, Omise'eke Tinsley's undergraduate course "Beyoncé Feminism, Rihanna Womanism" has inspired students from all walks of life. In Beyoncé in Formation, Tinsley now takes her rich observations beyond the classroom, using the blockbuster album and video Lemonade as a soundtrack for vital new-millennium narratives. Woven with candid observations about her life as a feminist scholar of African studies and a…
Ezili's Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders
Bridge: read this book like a song -- For the love of laveau -- Bridge: A black cisfemme is a beautiful thing -- To transcender transgender -- Bridge: Sissy Werk -- Mache Ansanm -- Bridge: My femdom, my love -- Riding the red -- Bridge: For the party girls -- It's a party -- Bridge: Baía and Marigo -- Arties's song
After The Love
In this epistolary reflection on the impact of the "Black/Queer/Diaspora" special issue, the authors reevaluate the scholarly practice of Black queer friendship, kinship, and love. Recognizing the ways "Black/Queer/Diaspora" emerged from and built many personal/professional relationships that have made this generation of Black queer scholarship possible, Tinsley asks: Why does a next generation of Black queer scholarship feel less possible now th…
Gender Studies (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (4 works) · Diaspora (4 works) · Queer (4 works) · African history and culture studies (3 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works)