Alix Chapman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3692522 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alix Chapman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alix |
| FAMILY NAME | Chapman |
| SIGNATURE | CHAPMAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tulane University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Lessons to Live By
Passing the mic
Limbologics
This essay argues that limbo is a chronic aspect of black queer life and thus the tools this community has developed in responding to these experiences might offer solutions for dealing with the acceleration of disaster in the twenty-first century. The author offers an analytical category and practice he calls limbologics: the production of indeterminate ontologies, temporal and spatial imaginaries that are created in relation to conditions of en…
The Punk Show
This article presents ethnography of Black cultural politics in post-flood New Orleans during the summer and fall of 2009. I engage in three interrelated subjects: (1) life histories and oral narratives in which I trace a history of Black queer performances locally referred to as "Punk Shows"; (2) my observations of a community play in which heritage, Black queer subjectivity, and the struggle over communal memory intersect; and (3) a broader dis…
Limbologics
This essay argues that limbo is a chronic aspect of black queer life and thus the tools this community has developed in responding to these experiences might offer solutions for dealing with the acceleration of disaster in the twenty-first century. The author offers an analytical category and practice he calls limbologics: the production of indeterminate ontologies, temporal and spatial imaginaries that are created in relation to conditions of en…
The Punk Show
This article presents ethnography of Black cultural politics in post-flood New Orleans during the summer and fall of 2009. I engage in three interrelated subjects: (1) life histories and oral narratives in which I trace a history of Black queer performances locally referred to as "Punk Shows"; (2) my observations of a community play in which heritage, Black queer subjectivity, and the struggle over communal memory intersect; and (3) a broader dis…
The Punk Show
This article presents ethnography of Black cultural politics in post-flood New Orleans during the summer and fall of 2009. I engage in three interrelated subjects: (1) life histories and oral narratives in which I trace a history of Black queer performances locally referred to as "Punk Shows"; (2) my observations of a community play in which heritage, Black queer subjectivity, and the struggle over communal memory intersect; and (3) a broader dis…
Limbologics
This essay argues that limbo is a chronic aspect of black queer life and thus the tools this community has developed in responding to these experiences might offer solutions for dealing with the acceleration of disaster in the twenty-first century. The author offers an analytical category and practice he calls limbologics: the production of indeterminate ontologies, temporal and spatial imaginaries that are created in relation to conditions of en…
Lessons to Live By
Passing the mic
Narrative (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Queer (2 works)