J Dillon
Biographic Data
| ID | 242972 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Dillon |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Dillon |
| SIGNATURE | DILLON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hampshire College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6015-4181 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Transmedicalism's seduction
This article uses feminist autoethnographic techniques to reflect on a set of interactions between a trans theorist and interlocuter I interviewed for my research, who I call Beth, and myself. In this work, I analyze how medical discourses of transgender transition, particularly that of transmedicalism, functions as an outgrowth of white supremacy. In this ethnographic vignette, binary [white] trans transition promises a coherent gender identity …
Love and Abolition
I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies
In this essay, the author examines June Jordan's poetic invocations of violence in order to consider their implications for future abolitionist thought. Jordan uses violence in her poetry to envision ways of feeling and being that make the present impossible and unimaginable and thus make possible new ways of knowing. If antiblack, heteropatriarchial violence makes certain forms of thought impossible, then Jordan smashes "a hammer to his head" to…
Affective Terror, Affective Insurgency
In this essay, I examine the affective contours of Audre Lorde’s poetic meditations on police violence. Lorde wrote poems about the police murder of a young Black boy, Clifford Glover, over a five-year period. Her poems offer us a theory of affect that comes from the Black radical tradition and Black lesbian feminism more specifically. She deftly maneuvers between terror and insurgency and highlights how to navigate the unspeakable and unthinkabl…
Fugitive Life
During the 1970s in the United States, hundreds of feminist, queer, and antiracist activists were imprisoned or became fugitives as they fought the changing contours of U.S. imperialism, global capitalism, and a repressive racial state. In Fugitive Life Stephen Dillon examines these activists' communiqués, films, memoirs, prison writing, and poetry to highlight the centrality of gender and sexuality to a mode of racialized power called the neolib…
The Prisoner's Dream
Research Article| December 01 2015 The Prisoner's Dream: Queer Visions from Solitary Confinement Stephen Dillon Stephen Dillon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2015) 23 (2): 161–184. https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.23.2.0161 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Stephen Dillon; The Prisoner's Dream: Queer Visions from Solitary Confinement. Qui Parle …
The Haunting of Evidence
In this essay, we situate the murder of Trayvon Martin within the history of the relationship between evidence and anti-blackness, suggesting that evidence and facts are rendered irrelevant when it comes to racialized violence and terror. Through an examination of the circulated 'media narrative' images of Martin and Zimmerman, we argue that the failure of evidence is bound up with a racialized optics rooted in U.S. chattel slavery that overdeter…
It's here, it's that time
This paper uses the film Born in Flames to engage questions around hope and the future that have been central to queer studies in the last decade. As the author understands it, the film's critique of the time of reform and progress holds profound implications for how we think about the future. By demonstrating the repetitions of racialized and gendered violence over time, the film produces a theory of the future where the continuation of the pres…
Black Minority Ethnic Students Navigating their Way from Access Courses to Social Work Programmes
This paper explores the experiences of predominantly black minority ethnic students navigating their way from further education access courses to BA Social Work programmes. It discusses tensions associated with balancing academic and professional entry requirements for social work education with principles of social justice enshrined in policy initiatives to widen participation to higher education and to the professions for those from less privil…
Prolegomena
Prolegomena deals with the introductory and hermeneutic sections of a wide range of commentaries and studies on philosophical, scientific, biblical and other ancient authors. Special attention is given to unclearness as a stimulus for interpretation. New light is shed on the Life of an author (e.g. Plotinus') as a preliminary to the study of his works, and on the part played by the idea that life and doctrine should agree with each other. The res…
Impact of the colon
Black Minority Ethnic Students Navigating their Way from Access Courses to Social Work Programmes
This paper explores the experiences of predominantly black minority ethnic students navigating their way from further education access courses to BA Social Work programmes. It discusses tensions associated with balancing academic and professional entry requirements for social work education with principles of social justice enshrined in policy initiatives to widen participation to higher education and to the professions for those from less privil…
The Haunting of Evidence
In this essay, we situate the murder of Trayvon Martin within the history of the relationship between evidence and anti-blackness, suggesting that evidence and facts are rendered irrelevant when it comes to racialized violence and terror. Through an examination of the circulated 'media narrative' images of Martin and Zimmerman, we argue that the failure of evidence is bound up with a racialized optics rooted in U.S. chattel slavery that overdeter…
It's here, it's that time
This paper uses the film Born in Flames to engage questions around hope and the future that have been central to queer studies in the last decade. As the author understands it, the film's critique of the time of reform and progress holds profound implications for how we think about the future. By demonstrating the repetitions of racialized and gendered violence over time, the film produces a theory of the future where the continuation of the pres…
Impact of the colon
Prolegomena
Prolegomena deals with the introductory and hermeneutic sections of a wide range of commentaries and studies on philosophical, scientific, biblical and other ancient authors. Special attention is given to unclearness as a stimulus for interpretation. New light is shed on the Life of an author (e.g. Plotinus') as a preliminary to the study of his works, and on the part played by the idea that life and doctrine should agree with each other. The res…
Black Minority Ethnic Students Navigating their Way from Access Courses to Social Work Programmes
This paper explores the experiences of predominantly black minority ethnic students navigating their way from further education access courses to BA Social Work programmes. It discusses tensions associated with balancing academic and professional entry requirements for social work education with principles of social justice enshrined in policy initiatives to widen participation to higher education and to the professions for those from less privil…
It's here, it's that time
This paper uses the film Born in Flames to engage questions around hope and the future that have been central to queer studies in the last decade. As the author understands it, the film's critique of the time of reform and progress holds profound implications for how we think about the future. By demonstrating the repetitions of racialized and gendered violence over time, the film produces a theory of the future where the continuation of the pres…
The Prisoner's Dream
Research Article| December 01 2015 The Prisoner's Dream: Queer Visions from Solitary Confinement Stephen Dillon Stephen Dillon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2015) 23 (2): 161–184. https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.23.2.0161 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Stephen Dillon; The Prisoner's Dream: Queer Visions from Solitary Confinement. Qui Parle …
The Haunting of Evidence
In this essay, we situate the murder of Trayvon Martin within the history of the relationship between evidence and anti-blackness, suggesting that evidence and facts are rendered irrelevant when it comes to racialized violence and terror. Through an examination of the circulated 'media narrative' images of Martin and Zimmerman, we argue that the failure of evidence is bound up with a racialized optics rooted in U.S. chattel slavery that overdeter…
Fugitive Life
During the 1970s in the United States, hundreds of feminist, queer, and antiracist activists were imprisoned or became fugitives as they fought the changing contours of U.S. imperialism, global capitalism, and a repressive racial state. In Fugitive Life Stephen Dillon examines these activists' communiqués, films, memoirs, prison writing, and poetry to highlight the centrality of gender and sexuality to a mode of racialized power called the neolib…
Affective Terror, Affective Insurgency
In this essay, I examine the affective contours of Audre Lorde’s poetic meditations on police violence. Lorde wrote poems about the police murder of a young Black boy, Clifford Glover, over a five-year period. Her poems offer us a theory of affect that comes from the Black radical tradition and Black lesbian feminism more specifically. She deftly maneuvers between terror and insurgency and highlights how to navigate the unspeakable and unthinkabl…
I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies
In this essay, the author examines June Jordan's poetic invocations of violence in order to consider their implications for future abolitionist thought. Jordan uses violence in her poetry to envision ways of feeling and being that make the present impossible and unimaginable and thus make possible new ways of knowing. If antiblack, heteropatriarchial violence makes certain forms of thought impossible, then Jordan smashes "a hammer to his head" to…
Love and Abolition
Transmedicalism's seduction
This article uses feminist autoethnographic techniques to reflect on a set of interactions between a trans theorist and interlocuter I interviewed for my research, who I call Beth, and myself. In this work, I analyze how medical discourses of transgender transition, particularly that of transmedicalism, functions as an outgrowth of white supremacy. In this ethnographic vignette, binary [white] trans transition promises a coherent gender identity …
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