T L Cowan
Biographic Data
| ID | 275197 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T L Cowan |
| GIVEN NAMES | T L |
| FAMILY NAME | Cowan |
| SIGNATURE | COWAN T L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto Scarborough |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0713-491X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Femme disorder/disordered femme
In this performance-essay, T.L. Cowan introduces a geyser method for ‘situation knowledges’: text-based drawings for the description and study of explosive, complex, and traumatic expression. Rejecting linearity and mono-genricity, Cowan writes tangentially and propulsively on grief, necro-political white exceptionalism and grievability, shock, shame, rage, and extreme emotional un- and re-shaping. Embracing the stigma of cognitive disorderliness…
The Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture by Grégory Pierrot, and
Reviewed by: The Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture by Grégory Pierrot, and: The Life and Legend of Bras-Coupé: The Fugitive Slave Who Fought the Law, Ruled the Swamp, Danced at Congo Square, Invented Jazz, and Died for Love by Bryan Wagner Tynes Cowan Grégory Pierrot. The Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture. Athens: U of Georgia P, 2019. 274 pp. $32.95. Bryan Wagner. The Life and Legend of Bras-Coupé: The Fugitive Slave Who Fought the Law, Ruled th…
Knowings and Knots
The Internet of Bawdies
Like the practices of drag itself, this workshop essay has been produced in and with community, geared towards many audiences and reliant on the expertise and creative intelligence of these communities and audiences. The Internet of Bawdies is the Internet of too much body. My working description of the Internet of Bawdies is, the (forced) digitization and onlining (publication, connectivity, searchability) of previously non-digital/not-onlined (…
"Can I study you?" Cross-disciplinary conversations in queer Internet studies
We first met around a workshop table at the queer Internet studies (QIS2) in Philadelphia in February 2017. This conversation began when we realized that we all had some disciplinary knowledges, training and practice that can bear upon queer Internet studies, but simultaneously we felt unprepared for the methodological-ethical challenges posed by the Internet as a queer research environment. Michelle was trained in ethnography as an anthropologis…
Race, Gender, and the Technological Turn
Dorothy Kim, TreaAndrea M. Russworm, Corrigan Vaughan, Cassius Adair, Veronica Paredes, T. L. Cowan, Race, Gender, and the Technological Turn: A Roundtable on Digitizing Revolution, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 39, No. 1, Women Digitizing Revolution (2018), pp. 149-177
Run with Whatever You Can Carry
Run with Whatever You Can Carry":Cross-Platform Materials and Methods in Performance Studies–Meets–Digital Humanities T. L. Cowan (bio) Remember to Surface This essay is structured by my remix of "Instructions," a 1996 song by Veda Hille, a Vancouver-based songwriter, musician, and performer.1 Each heading is an instruction from her song, which I returned to recently as I moved back to Canada after several years of living and working in the Unite…
Onlining queer acts
This essay considers how the current compulsion to digital reproduction – the urge to digitize, network, and online previously not-online materials – offers researchers of and within queer circuits the opportunity to defamiliarize and denaturalize our participation in academic systems of exploitation and to reorient our work towards decolonizing research economies, habits, protocols, and relationships. It takes the Cabaret Commons, the authors’ s…
Transfeminist Kill/Joys
This paper considers recent transfeminist critical creative work through an affective trope contingently named here as that belonging to the “transfeminist kill/joy,” after Sara Ahmed's framing of the “feminist killjoy.” The trope of the transfeminist kill/joy can been read as a set of proliferating dialectics expressed as the rage that comes into being through living the violent effects of transphobia and trans-misogyny and through the practice …
Trading Credit for Debt
Once you start to see bad debt, you start to see it everywhere, hear it everywhere, feel it everywhere.-Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black StudyIf you had gone to the opening of Rare & Raw: Queer History Then and Now at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian History in New York City on February 15, 2013, you would have seen among the small selection of artworks exploring the themes of history, visibi…
A Xicana codex of changing consciousness
Onlining queer acts
This essay considers how the current compulsion to digital reproduction – the urge to digitize, network, and online previously not-online materials – offers researchers of and within queer circuits the opportunity to defamiliarize and denaturalize our participation in academic systems of exploitation and to reorient our work towards decolonizing research economies, habits, protocols, and relationships. It takes the Cabaret Commons, the authors’ s…
Transfeminist Kill/Joys
This paper considers recent transfeminist critical creative work through an affective trope contingently named here as that belonging to the “transfeminist kill/joy,” after Sara Ahmed's framing of the “feminist killjoy.” The trope of the transfeminist kill/joy can been read as a set of proliferating dialectics expressed as the rage that comes into being through living the violent effects of transphobia and trans-misogyny and through the practice …
A Xicana codex of changing consciousness
Transfeminist Kill/Joys
This paper considers recent transfeminist critical creative work through an affective trope contingently named here as that belonging to the “transfeminist kill/joy,” after Sara Ahmed's framing of the “feminist killjoy.” The trope of the transfeminist kill/joy can been read as a set of proliferating dialectics expressed as the rage that comes into being through living the violent effects of transphobia and trans-misogyny and through the practice …
Trading Credit for Debt
Once you start to see bad debt, you start to see it everywhere, hear it everywhere, feel it everywhere.-Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black StudyIf you had gone to the opening of Rare & Raw: Queer History Then and Now at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian History in New York City on February 15, 2013, you would have seen among the small selection of artworks exploring the themes of history, visibi…
The Internet of Bawdies
Like the practices of drag itself, this workshop essay has been produced in and with community, geared towards many audiences and reliant on the expertise and creative intelligence of these communities and audiences. The Internet of Bawdies is the Internet of too much body. My working description of the Internet of Bawdies is, the (forced) digitization and onlining (publication, connectivity, searchability) of previously non-digital/not-onlined (…
"Can I study you?" Cross-disciplinary conversations in queer Internet studies
We first met around a workshop table at the queer Internet studies (QIS2) in Philadelphia in February 2017. This conversation began when we realized that we all had some disciplinary knowledges, training and practice that can bear upon queer Internet studies, but simultaneously we felt unprepared for the methodological-ethical challenges posed by the Internet as a queer research environment. Michelle was trained in ethnography as an anthropologis…
Race, Gender, and the Technological Turn
Dorothy Kim, TreaAndrea M. Russworm, Corrigan Vaughan, Cassius Adair, Veronica Paredes, T. L. Cowan, Race, Gender, and the Technological Turn: A Roundtable on Digitizing Revolution, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 39, No. 1, Women Digitizing Revolution (2018), pp. 149-177
Run with Whatever You Can Carry
Run with Whatever You Can Carry":Cross-Platform Materials and Methods in Performance Studies–Meets–Digital Humanities T. L. Cowan (bio) Remember to Surface This essay is structured by my remix of "Instructions," a 1996 song by Veda Hille, a Vancouver-based songwriter, musician, and performer.1 Each heading is an instruction from her song, which I returned to recently as I moved back to Canada after several years of living and working in the Unite…
Onlining queer acts
This essay considers how the current compulsion to digital reproduction – the urge to digitize, network, and online previously not-online materials – offers researchers of and within queer circuits the opportunity to defamiliarize and denaturalize our participation in academic systems of exploitation and to reorient our work towards decolonizing research economies, habits, protocols, and relationships. It takes the Cabaret Commons, the authors’ s…
Knowings and Knots
The Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture by Grégory Pierrot, and
Reviewed by: The Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture by Grégory Pierrot, and: The Life and Legend of Bras-Coupé: The Fugitive Slave Who Fought the Law, Ruled the Swamp, Danced at Congo Square, Invented Jazz, and Died for Love by Bryan Wagner Tynes Cowan Grégory Pierrot. The Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture. Athens: U of Georgia P, 2019. 274 pp. $32.95. Bryan Wagner. The Life and Legend of Bras-Coupé: The Fugitive Slave Who Fought the Law, Ruled th…
Femme disorder/disordered femme
In this performance-essay, T.L. Cowan introduces a geyser method for ‘situation knowledges’: text-based drawings for the description and study of explosive, complex, and traumatic expression. Rejecting linearity and mono-genricity, Cowan writes tangentially and propulsively on grief, necro-political white exceptionalism and grievability, shock, shame, rage, and extreme emotional un- and re-shaping. Embracing the stigma of cognitive disorderliness…
Sociology (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · History (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Queer (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Law (3 works)