Kay Ulanday Barrett
Biographic Data
| ID | 1697695 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kay Ulanday Barrett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kay Ulanday |
| FAMILY NAME | Barrett |
| SIGNATURE | BARRETT K U |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
QPOC Conference Keynote
QPOC Conference Keynote: UCSB Originally written for May 15, 2015 Kay Ulanday Barrett (bio) I would like to thank QPOC Conference here at UCSB, the organizers, the students, the late nights and missing meals, the gas money and the delusion it takes to create social justice and critical and party space all in one dreamy QTBIPOClandia is a feat. If you get new ideas, get new crushes, have new protest chants, it’s because of those who’ve brought you…
Mid-day subway
Mid-day subway: there are no icebreakers or pronouns for this Kay Ulanday Barrett (bio) For a long time I wanted there to be no barrier between pelvis and thetectonic plate of my chest. Just open. It’s impossible though. My belovedswoons at my nipples, re-stitched, body a tell-all, body terror. Strangers cullme on train, even in afternoon, spit out my looks like cherry pits even though I fold page in some book, secretly recounting how many steps …
A postmortem story or how archaeologists might fail me
A postmortem story or how archaeologists might fail me after Lourival Bezerra de Sá after Lady Cao Kay Ulanday Barrett (bio) More than my femurs will be found sprouting below a lilac bush,my left front tooth a wavy millimeter, my pelvic bone an avenuein U turn. Archaeologists might find body a like mine, one likeburnt clay pots, cheekbones compressed by loam. My tibialong as a brittle bow that once kicked up to the wind.To argue about my bone-dus…
Nocturne with hysterectomy
Nocturne with hysterectomy Kay Ulanday Barrett (bio) how you paused when the nurse said your name, notyour real name, but the one lodged onto your government ID.where you correct her, slurred and fevered, claim your pain level is a seven, and she tells you you’ll slide into the white cove fora CT scan. the drip in your veins allot enough energy not to wince.you hold your breath. they record your pelvis, tell you that everything will be hot, your …
In Defense of the X
This essay is an engagement of the dialectics of naming and violence, discussed from the perspectives of the trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming Pilipina/o/xs whom we interviewed in the Summer of 2020. Applying a transnational queer diasporic methodology, we center their material realities, which we feel remain missing in both scholarly and popular debates about the term “Filipinx.” Indeed, it was LGBTQI+ Pilipinxs in North America who w…
In Defense of the X
This essay is an engagement of the dialectics of naming and violence, discussed from the perspectives of the trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming Pilipina/o/xs whom we interviewed in the Summer of 2020. Applying a transnational queer diasporic methodology, we center their material realities, which we feel remain missing in both scholarly and popular debates about the term “Filipinx.” Indeed, it was LGBTQI+ Pilipinxs in North America who w…
In Defense of the X
This essay is an engagement of the dialectics of naming and violence, discussed from the perspectives of the trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming Pilipina/o/xs whom we interviewed in the Summer of 2020. Applying a transnational queer diasporic methodology, we center their material realities, which we feel remain missing in both scholarly and popular debates about the term “Filipinx.” Indeed, it was LGBTQI+ Pilipinxs in North America who w…
QPOC Conference Keynote
QPOC Conference Keynote: UCSB Originally written for May 15, 2015 Kay Ulanday Barrett (bio) I would like to thank QPOC Conference here at UCSB, the organizers, the students, the late nights and missing meals, the gas money and the delusion it takes to create social justice and critical and party space all in one dreamy QTBIPOClandia is a feat. If you get new ideas, get new crushes, have new protest chants, it’s because of those who’ve brought you…
Mid-day subway
Mid-day subway: there are no icebreakers or pronouns for this Kay Ulanday Barrett (bio) For a long time I wanted there to be no barrier between pelvis and thetectonic plate of my chest. Just open. It’s impossible though. My belovedswoons at my nipples, re-stitched, body a tell-all, body terror. Strangers cullme on train, even in afternoon, spit out my looks like cherry pits even though I fold page in some book, secretly recounting how many steps …
A postmortem story or how archaeologists might fail me
A postmortem story or how archaeologists might fail me after Lourival Bezerra de Sá after Lady Cao Kay Ulanday Barrett (bio) More than my femurs will be found sprouting below a lilac bush,my left front tooth a wavy millimeter, my pelvic bone an avenuein U turn. Archaeologists might find body a like mine, one likeburnt clay pots, cheekbones compressed by loam. My tibialong as a brittle bow that once kicked up to the wind.To argue about my bone-dus…
Nocturne with hysterectomy
Nocturne with hysterectomy Kay Ulanday Barrett (bio) how you paused when the nurse said your name, notyour real name, but the one lodged onto your government ID.where you correct her, slurred and fevered, claim your pain level is a seven, and she tells you you’ll slide into the white cove fora CT scan. the drip in your veins allot enough energy not to wince.you hold your breath. they record your pelvis, tell you that everything will be hot, your …
Art (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · History (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Media studies (2 works)