Blu Buchanan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685589 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Blu Buchanan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Blu |
| FAMILY NAME | Buchanan |
| SIGNATURE | BUCHANAN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Asheville |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6803-8652 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Reckoning with Ecologies of Violence in Campus (Counter)Protests
Universities have become a focal point for contestation over the meaning of free speech as well as sites of violent protests connected to white supremacist speakers and anti-racist, anti-fascist activism. This paper investigates incarnations of violence operating during the recent resurgence of white supremacist organizing and counter-protest on college campuses, focusing on the case of the white supremacist attacks at the University of Virginia …
Black Feminist Strategies for Right-Wing Studies
When researchers wade into work on the far right, they inevitably emerge transformed in some way.Despite the fact that fields like sociology (my own home ground) persistently cling to ideas of objectivity, the conversations I have with other researchers often involve the emotional and mental damage we feel after engaging in our research.Surely not all researchers feel the same way, particularly those whose political and social position are in ali…
Unsafe Words: Queering Consent in the #MeToo Era
Queer people may not have invented sex, but queers have long been pioneers in imagining new ways to have it. Yet their voices have been largely absent from the #MeToo conversation. What can queer people learn from the #MeToo conversation? And what can queer communities teach the rest of the world about ethical sex? This provocative book brings together academics, activists, artists, and sex workers to tackle challenging questions about sex, power…
Minority Rights Movements from the Outside
Gay Neo-Nazis in the United States
Scholars often describe the heteropatriarchal relationships that prop up fascist political ideologies and practices. This emphasis is rooted in counter-reading other historical texts, which often conflate homosexuality and fascism as (1) one and the same or (2) linearly related along a spectrum, between the "moral degeneracy" of homosexuality and the atrocities produced by fascist regimes. These traditional models fail to describe the National So…
We Major
This chapter charts the geographies of black trans feminism and its theoretical interventions by emerging from a conversation between two black femme nonbinary scholars. Black feminist scholarship often attempted to make claims on cis womanhood, and so has been slow to engage with more explicit gender and sexual transgressions and identities. These transgressive subjectivities have been celebrated within black communities but often left out of th…
Film Review: Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen
DisarmUC
As scholar-activists, the authors explore efforts of police disarmament within the context of an emerging social movement sweeping the University of California system. The Disarm UC coalition challenges the myth of policing as necessary for the production of a “safe” society, especially in an era in which fear-mongering has helped to naturalize far-right and authoritarian systems of control. Instead, this article asks how policing is always alrea…
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DisarmUC
As scholar-activists, the authors explore efforts of police disarmament within the context of an emerging social movement sweeping the University of California system. The Disarm UC coalition challenges the myth of policing as necessary for the production of a “safe” society, especially in an era in which fear-mongering has helped to naturalize far-right and authoritarian systems of control. Instead, this article asks how policing is always alrea…
We Major
This chapter charts the geographies of black trans feminism and its theoretical interventions by emerging from a conversation between two black femme nonbinary scholars. Black feminist scholarship often attempted to make claims on cis womanhood, and so has been slow to engage with more explicit gender and sexual transgressions and identities. These transgressive subjectivities have been celebrated within black communities but often left out of th…
Film Review: Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen
Gay Neo-Nazis in the United States
Scholars often describe the heteropatriarchal relationships that prop up fascist political ideologies and practices. This emphasis is rooted in counter-reading other historical texts, which often conflate homosexuality and fascism as (1) one and the same or (2) linearly related along a spectrum, between the "moral degeneracy" of homosexuality and the atrocities produced by fascist regimes. These traditional models fail to describe the National So…
Unsafe Words: Queering Consent in the #MeToo Era
Queer people may not have invented sex, but queers have long been pioneers in imagining new ways to have it. Yet their voices have been largely absent from the #MeToo conversation. What can queer people learn from the #MeToo conversation? And what can queer communities teach the rest of the world about ethical sex? This provocative book brings together academics, activists, artists, and sex workers to tackle challenging questions about sex, power…
Minority Rights Movements from the Outside
Black Feminist Strategies for Right-Wing Studies
When researchers wade into work on the far right, they inevitably emerge transformed in some way.Despite the fact that fields like sociology (my own home ground) persistently cling to ideas of objectivity, the conversations I have with other researchers often involve the emotional and mental damage we feel after engaging in our research.Surely not all researchers feel the same way, particularly those whose political and social position are in ali…
Reckoning with Ecologies of Violence in Campus (Counter)Protests
Universities have become a focal point for contestation over the meaning of free speech as well as sites of violent protests connected to white supremacist speakers and anti-racist, anti-fascist activism. This paper investigates incarnations of violence operating during the recent resurgence of white supremacist organizing and counter-protest on college campuses, focusing on the case of the white supremacist attacks at the University of Virginia …
Sociology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Media studies (2 works)