Ella Myers
Biographic Data
| ID | 4376115 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ella Myers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ella |
| FAMILY NAME | Myers |
| SIGNATURE | MYERS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Utah |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-1429-0879 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Trailblazer No More: Pauli Murray’s Use of History and Memory
Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray is often framed in future-oriented terms as a trailblazer and pioneer. This article contends that such framing risks obscuring how significant the past was to Murray and her approach to social change. It seeks to provide a more complete image of the temporal dynamics of Murray’s life and work by examining the role of history and memory in her legal, theological, and autobiographical writings. In doing so, it contributes to a…
Usurping the Right to Abortion: Jane’s Anarchic Practices of Direct Action and Mutual Aid
The Abortion Counseling Service, a U.S. feminist organization better known as Jane, provided safe, affordable abortions to 12,000 women in Chicago during the pre-Roe era (1969–1973). Remarkably, beginning in 1970, its members, women and non-medical professionals, clandestinely performed the abortions themselves. Yet the group’s distinctive practice of political dissidence has not been carefully theorized. The article argues that Jane’s efforts we…
If these queer walls could talk: Queer monumentality and The Great Wall of Los Angeles
This article contributes to debates swirling around one relatively new way of representing LGBTQ pasts: the monumental. This form—which applies “a weightiness, timelessness, and grandeur” to its subjects—only became available to queer Americans starting in the 1980s. Previously, LGBTQ Americans primarily interacted with their pasts in what Thomas Dunn calls “tactical” and “ephemeral” ways. Queer monumentality has helped activists overcome unique …
Queer Monumentality: The Power and Ethics of Symbolic Form
This article engages with Dirk J. Smitâ€TMs 1986 article “The Symbol of Reconciliation and Ideological Conflict in South Africa.†The author illustrates and modifies Smitâ€TMs analysis of symbols and their connection to ideology by way of a case study. The case study explores how LGBTQ Americans have sought to access symbolic power contained within their history. The author especially focuses on the forms that LGBTQ Americans have used to construc…
The Gratifications of Whiteness: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Enduring Rewards of Anti-Blackness
This is the first book-length study of W. E. B. Du Bois’s conceptualization of American whiteness. While many popular and scholarly accounts of Du Bois’s thought focus on his famous claim that whiteness has functioned as a “public and psychological wage” in the United States, this book reveals a more complex analysis that speaks powerfully to contemporary conditions. Whiteness, Du Bois shows us, is not one thing, but many. Focusing on three key m…
The Last Human
Beyond the Psychological Wage: Du Bois on White Dominion
W.E.B. Du Bois’s reading of whiteness as a “public and psychological wage” is enormously influential. This essay examines another, lesser known facet of Du Bois’s account of racialized identity: his conceptualization of whiteness as dominion. In his 1920–1940 writings, “modern” whiteness appears as a proprietary orientation toward the planet in general and toward “darker peoples” in particular. This “title to the universe” is part of chattel slav…
Presupposing equality: The trouble with Rancière’s axiomatic approach
Rancière’s political thought is the object of growing fascination, particularly as a lens through which to interpret contemporary political protests, yet his conception of axiomatic equality remains unexamined. This article investigates Rancière’s account of equality as a ‘presupposition’, showing that an axiom of equality guides momentary acts of resistance, but also serves as a ‘necessary and sufficient condition’ of all societies, however hier…
Everyday utopias: The conceptual life of promising spaces
Worldly Ethics: Democratic Politics and Care for the World
From Pluralism to Liberalism: Rereading Isaiah Berlin
The relationship between pluralism and liberalism has been at the center of recent considerations of Isaiah Berlin's thought. In particular, liberal theorists have asked whether the value pluralism Berlin endorses actually undermines his liberalism. A common interpretive approach resolves this problem by presenting Berlin's pluralism as “limited” rather than “radical,” and therefore capable of serving as a moral foundation authorizing liberalism.…
Resisting Foucauldian Ethics: Associative Politics and the Limits of the Care of the Self
Evil’s Effects
Beyond the Psychological Wage: Du Bois on White Dominion
W.E.B. Du Bois’s reading of whiteness as a “public and psychological wage” is enormously influential. This essay examines another, lesser known facet of Du Bois’s account of racialized identity: his conceptualization of whiteness as dominion. In his 1920–1940 writings, “modern” whiteness appears as a proprietary orientation toward the planet in general and toward “darker peoples” in particular. This “title to the universe” is part of chattel slav…
Resisting Foucauldian Ethics: Associative Politics and the Limits of the Care of the Self
Presupposing equality: The trouble with Rancière’s axiomatic approach
Rancière’s political thought is the object of growing fascination, particularly as a lens through which to interpret contemporary political protests, yet his conception of axiomatic equality remains unexamined. This article investigates Rancière’s account of equality as a ‘presupposition’, showing that an axiom of equality guides momentary acts of resistance, but also serves as a ‘necessary and sufficient condition’ of all societies, however hier…
The Last Human
From Pluralism to Liberalism: Rereading Isaiah Berlin
The relationship between pluralism and liberalism has been at the center of recent considerations of Isaiah Berlin's thought. In particular, liberal theorists have asked whether the value pluralism Berlin endorses actually undermines his liberalism. A common interpretive approach resolves this problem by presenting Berlin's pluralism as “limited” rather than “radical,” and therefore capable of serving as a moral foundation authorizing liberalism.…
Evil’s Effects
Resisting Foucauldian Ethics: Associative Politics and the Limits of the Care of the Self
From Pluralism to Liberalism: Rereading Isaiah Berlin
The relationship between pluralism and liberalism has been at the center of recent considerations of Isaiah Berlin's thought. In particular, liberal theorists have asked whether the value pluralism Berlin endorses actually undermines his liberalism. A common interpretive approach resolves this problem by presenting Berlin's pluralism as “limited” rather than “radical,” and therefore capable of serving as a moral foundation authorizing liberalism.…
Worldly Ethics: Democratic Politics and Care for the World
Everyday utopias: The conceptual life of promising spaces
Presupposing equality: The trouble with Rancière’s axiomatic approach
Rancière’s political thought is the object of growing fascination, particularly as a lens through which to interpret contemporary political protests, yet his conception of axiomatic equality remains unexamined. This article investigates Rancière’s account of equality as a ‘presupposition’, showing that an axiom of equality guides momentary acts of resistance, but also serves as a ‘necessary and sufficient condition’ of all societies, however hier…
Beyond the Psychological Wage: Du Bois on White Dominion
W.E.B. Du Bois’s reading of whiteness as a “public and psychological wage” is enormously influential. This essay examines another, lesser known facet of Du Bois’s account of racialized identity: his conceptualization of whiteness as dominion. In his 1920–1940 writings, “modern” whiteness appears as a proprietary orientation toward the planet in general and toward “darker peoples” in particular. This “title to the universe” is part of chattel slav…
Queer Monumentality: The Power and Ethics of Symbolic Form
This article engages with Dirk J. Smitâ€TMs 1986 article “The Symbol of Reconciliation and Ideological Conflict in South Africa.†The author illustrates and modifies Smitâ€TMs analysis of symbols and their connection to ideology by way of a case study. The case study explores how LGBTQ Americans have sought to access symbolic power contained within their history. The author especially focuses on the forms that LGBTQ Americans have used to construc…
The Gratifications of Whiteness: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Enduring Rewards of Anti-Blackness
This is the first book-length study of W. E. B. Du Bois’s conceptualization of American whiteness. While many popular and scholarly accounts of Du Bois’s thought focus on his famous claim that whiteness has functioned as a “public and psychological wage” in the United States, this book reveals a more complex analysis that speaks powerfully to contemporary conditions. Whiteness, Du Bois shows us, is not one thing, but many. Focusing on three key m…
The Last Human
If these queer walls could talk: Queer monumentality and The Great Wall of Los Angeles
This article contributes to debates swirling around one relatively new way of representing LGBTQ pasts: the monumental. This form—which applies “a weightiness, timelessness, and grandeur” to its subjects—only became available to queer Americans starting in the 1980s. Previously, LGBTQ Americans primarily interacted with their pasts in what Thomas Dunn calls “tactical” and “ephemeral” ways. Queer monumentality has helped activists overcome unique …
Trailblazer No More: Pauli Murray’s Use of History and Memory
Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray is often framed in future-oriented terms as a trailblazer and pioneer. This article contends that such framing risks obscuring how significant the past was to Murray and her approach to social change. It seeks to provide a more complete image of the temporal dynamics of Murray’s life and work by examining the role of history and memory in her legal, theological, and autobiographical writings. In doing so, it contributes to a…
Usurping the Right to Abortion: Jane’s Anarchic Practices of Direct Action and Mutual Aid
The Abortion Counseling Service, a U.S. feminist organization better known as Jane, provided safe, affordable abortions to 12,000 women in Chicago during the pre-Roe era (1969–1973). Remarkably, beginning in 1970, its members, women and non-medical professionals, clandestinely performed the abortions themselves. Yet the group’s distinctive practice of political dissidence has not been carefully theorized. The article argues that Jane’s efforts we…
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