Judy Rohrer
Biographic Data
| ID | 81318 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Judy Rohrer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Judy |
| FAMILY NAME | Rohrer |
| SIGNATURE | ROHRER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Schlumberger (Ireland) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
We Are Not (Yet) Nonbinary
I am addressing this paper to other white temporarily-able-bodied settler feminists interested in moving, not just toward a queer (queerer?) horizon, but toward a nonbinary liberatory futurity as a collective political aspiration (not an identitarian goal of self-actualization). In this paper, I consider how we might mobilize the nonbinary as a freedom practice, a practice building toward a future where we are all free. Imagining and creating a l…
(Re)purposing, not "Rightsizing": Responding to Recent Attacks on Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies in the U.S. Academy
No one wants to be "rightsized," particularly not feminists, and especially not feminists in gender, women's, and sexuality studies programs and departments (GWSS). Yet that's one of the multiple threats we are now facing, and it is both internal and external. These attacks on GWSS and our cousins are not new, but both the university administrators and the politicos are taking advantage of the current pandemonium to ramp up their ferocity. As a G…
Tell the boys 'bye: The broad bankruptcy of the Boy Scouts
In 2020 the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) announced it was filing for bankruptcy after haemorrhaging money for years due to insurance and the legal costs associated with sexual abuse lawsuits. This set off a flurry of news articles that continue today. I use a queer feminist analysis to argue that we must look more closely at BSA history to learn how the organization has always been broadly bankrupt
Imperial Dis-ease: Trump's Border Wall, Obama's Sea Wall, and Settler Colonial Failure
Developing a fuller understanding of US imperialism requires engagement with settler colonial and Indigenous studies. I expand Amy Kaplan's analysis of US empire as "riddled with instability, ambiguity and disorder" to consider how settler colonialism is fortified via walls. Walls stake settler claims and scale from individual property (home) to national borders (homeland). Examining Donald Trump's US-Mexico border wall and a sea wall in front of…
Celebrating Fifty Years of Feminist Studies: Notes of Appreciation from Authors
"In celebration of fifty years since Feminist Studies began publishing, in 1972, we asked a selection of authors to convey what having their work published in Feminist Studies has meant for them, both professionally as well as personally. Following are their responses."
Where Life Is Precious: Intersectional Feminism in the Time of Covid-19
Where Life Is Precious": Intersectional Feminism in the Time of COVID-19 early In thIs pandemIC, which has stretched, compressed, and warped time and space unimaginably, I had to move my yoga practice from the local Y to YouTube.Resistant at first, I have accepted yoga's power in assisting me to "Be.Here.Now."I knew this would be even more valuable during the lockdown.What I hadn't anticipated was the impact of yoga's focus on breath.I learned th…
Pacific Moves Beyond Colonialism: A Conversation from Hawai'i and Guåhan
Recognizing the tensions between decolonial and postcolonial frameworks, this essay argues that a combined post/decolonial approach can illuminate colonial processes and reassert indigeneity. Writing as a Chamorro and a haole scholar, we weave together examples from Guåhan and Hawai'i to illustrate how a joint mobilization of decolonial and postcolonial approaches expose settler colonial processes and resistances. This essay also considers how co…
Queering the Biopolitics of Citizenship in the Age of Obama
The book from the interdisciplinary fields of queer theory, critical race theory, feminist political theory, disability studies, and indigenous studies to demonstrate that analyzing contemporary notio
Haoles in Hawaii
Haoles in Hawai'istrives to make sense of (Hawaiian for white person) and politics of haole in current debates about race in Hawai'i. Recognizing it as a form of American whiteness specific to Hawai'i, the author (who grew up in Kaua'i and O'ahu) argues that was forged and reforged over two centuries of colonization and needs to be understood in that context. Haole reminds us that race is about more than skin color as it identifies a certain amal…
Haoles in Hawaii
This book strives to make sense of haole (white person/whiteness in Hawaii) and “the politics of haole” in current debates about race in Hawaii. Recognizing it as a form of American whiteness specific to Hawaii, the book argues that haole was forged and reforged over two centuries of colonization and needs to be understood in that context. Haole reminds us that race is about more than skin color as it identifies a certain amalgamation of attitude…
Attacking Trust: Hawai'i as a Crossroads and Kamehameha Schools in the Crosshairs
American law in particular, renders indigenous claims inarticulable by racializing native peoples, while simultaneously normalizing white subjectivity through invocation of a colorblind ideology. The inherent contradiction in these two positions - race matters/race does not matter - is played out in the frictions surrounding lawsuits against native Hawaiian entitlements. This paper will look at recent litigation and political mobilization aimed a…
Disrupting the 'melting pot: Racial discourse in Hawai'i and the naturalization of haole
This article analyses two dominant discourses of racial politics in Hawai'i and the work they do naturalizing haole (white people or whiteness in Hawai'i) in the islands. The first is the well-worn discourse of racial harmony representing Hawai'i as an idyllic racial paradise with no conflict or inequality. Frequently contrasting the islands with the 'racist mainland', this discourse circulates among many communities and is widely referenced. The…
Toward a Full-Inclusion Feminism: A Feminist Deployment of Disability Analysis
Hidden and disregarded for too long, we are demanding not only rights and equal opportunity but are demanding that the academy take on the nettlesome question of why we've been sequestered in the first place. For, in disregarding disability as subject matter, disabled people as subjects, and disabled people's subjectivity, academics have been com plicit in that confinement. Yet each of these elements, worked though the curriculum, can serve not o…
Disrupting the 'melting pot: Racial discourse in Hawai'i and the naturalization of haole
This article analyses two dominant discourses of racial politics in Hawai'i and the work they do naturalizing haole (white people or whiteness in Hawai'i) in the islands. The first is the well-worn discourse of racial harmony representing Hawai'i as an idyllic racial paradise with no conflict or inequality. Frequently contrasting the islands with the 'racist mainland', this discourse circulates among many communities and is widely referenced. The…
Toward a Full-Inclusion Feminism: A Feminist Deployment of Disability Analysis
Hidden and disregarded for too long, we are demanding not only rights and equal opportunity but are demanding that the academy take on the nettlesome question of why we've been sequestered in the first place. For, in disregarding disability as subject matter, disabled people as subjects, and disabled people's subjectivity, academics have been com plicit in that confinement. Yet each of these elements, worked though the curriculum, can serve not o…
Pacific Moves Beyond Colonialism: A Conversation from Hawai'i and Guåhan
Recognizing the tensions between decolonial and postcolonial frameworks, this essay argues that a combined post/decolonial approach can illuminate colonial processes and reassert indigeneity. Writing as a Chamorro and a haole scholar, we weave together examples from Guåhan and Hawai'i to illustrate how a joint mobilization of decolonial and postcolonial approaches expose settler colonial processes and resistances. This essay also considers how co…
Imperial Dis-ease: Trump's Border Wall, Obama's Sea Wall, and Settler Colonial Failure
Developing a fuller understanding of US imperialism requires engagement with settler colonial and Indigenous studies. I expand Amy Kaplan's analysis of US empire as "riddled with instability, ambiguity and disorder" to consider how settler colonialism is fortified via walls. Walls stake settler claims and scale from individual property (home) to national borders (homeland). Examining Donald Trump's US-Mexico border wall and a sea wall in front of…
Where Life Is Precious: Intersectional Feminism in the Time of Covid-19
Where Life Is Precious": Intersectional Feminism in the Time of COVID-19 early In thIs pandemIC, which has stretched, compressed, and warped time and space unimaginably, I had to move my yoga practice from the local Y to YouTube.Resistant at first, I have accepted yoga's power in assisting me to "Be.Here.Now."I knew this would be even more valuable during the lockdown.What I hadn't anticipated was the impact of yoga's focus on breath.I learned th…
Attacking Trust: Hawai'i as a Crossroads and Kamehameha Schools in the Crosshairs
American law in particular, renders indigenous claims inarticulable by racializing native peoples, while simultaneously normalizing white subjectivity through invocation of a colorblind ideology. The inherent contradiction in these two positions - race matters/race does not matter - is played out in the frictions surrounding lawsuits against native Hawaiian entitlements. This paper will look at recent litigation and political mobilization aimed a…
Toward a Full-Inclusion Feminism: A Feminist Deployment of Disability Analysis
Hidden and disregarded for too long, we are demanding not only rights and equal opportunity but are demanding that the academy take on the nettlesome question of why we've been sequestered in the first place. For, in disregarding disability as subject matter, disabled people as subjects, and disabled people's subjectivity, academics have been com plicit in that confinement. Yet each of these elements, worked though the curriculum, can serve not o…
Disrupting the 'melting pot: Racial discourse in Hawai'i and the naturalization of haole
This article analyses two dominant discourses of racial politics in Hawai'i and the work they do naturalizing haole (white people or whiteness in Hawai'i) in the islands. The first is the well-worn discourse of racial harmony representing Hawai'i as an idyllic racial paradise with no conflict or inequality. Frequently contrasting the islands with the 'racist mainland', this discourse circulates among many communities and is widely referenced. The…
Haoles in Hawaii
Haoles in Hawai'istrives to make sense of (Hawaiian for white person) and politics of haole in current debates about race in Hawai'i. Recognizing it as a form of American whiteness specific to Hawai'i, the author (who grew up in Kaua'i and O'ahu) argues that was forged and reforged over two centuries of colonization and needs to be understood in that context. Haole reminds us that race is about more than skin color as it identifies a certain amal…
Haoles in Hawaii
This book strives to make sense of haole (white person/whiteness in Hawaii) and “the politics of haole” in current debates about race in Hawaii. Recognizing it as a form of American whiteness specific to Hawaii, the book argues that haole was forged and reforged over two centuries of colonization and needs to be understood in that context. Haole reminds us that race is about more than skin color as it identifies a certain amalgamation of attitude…
Attacking Trust: Hawai'i as a Crossroads and Kamehameha Schools in the Crosshairs
American law in particular, renders indigenous claims inarticulable by racializing native peoples, while simultaneously normalizing white subjectivity through invocation of a colorblind ideology. The inherent contradiction in these two positions - race matters/race does not matter - is played out in the frictions surrounding lawsuits against native Hawaiian entitlements. This paper will look at recent litigation and political mobilization aimed a…
Queering the Biopolitics of Citizenship in the Age of Obama
The book from the interdisciplinary fields of queer theory, critical race theory, feminist political theory, disability studies, and indigenous studies to demonstrate that analyzing contemporary notio
Pacific Moves Beyond Colonialism: A Conversation from Hawai'i and Guåhan
Recognizing the tensions between decolonial and postcolonial frameworks, this essay argues that a combined post/decolonial approach can illuminate colonial processes and reassert indigeneity. Writing as a Chamorro and a haole scholar, we weave together examples from Guåhan and Hawai'i to illustrate how a joint mobilization of decolonial and postcolonial approaches expose settler colonial processes and resistances. This essay also considers how co…
Where Life Is Precious: Intersectional Feminism in the Time of Covid-19
Where Life Is Precious": Intersectional Feminism in the Time of COVID-19 early In thIs pandemIC, which has stretched, compressed, and warped time and space unimaginably, I had to move my yoga practice from the local Y to YouTube.Resistant at first, I have accepted yoga's power in assisting me to "Be.Here.Now."I knew this would be even more valuable during the lockdown.What I hadn't anticipated was the impact of yoga's focus on breath.I learned th…
Imperial Dis-ease: Trump's Border Wall, Obama's Sea Wall, and Settler Colonial Failure
Developing a fuller understanding of US imperialism requires engagement with settler colonial and Indigenous studies. I expand Amy Kaplan's analysis of US empire as "riddled with instability, ambiguity and disorder" to consider how settler colonialism is fortified via walls. Walls stake settler claims and scale from individual property (home) to national borders (homeland). Examining Donald Trump's US-Mexico border wall and a sea wall in front of…
Celebrating Fifty Years of Feminist Studies: Notes of Appreciation from Authors
"In celebration of fifty years since Feminist Studies began publishing, in 1972, we asked a selection of authors to convey what having their work published in Feminist Studies has meant for them, both professionally as well as personally. Following are their responses."
Tell the boys 'bye: The broad bankruptcy of the Boy Scouts
In 2020 the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) announced it was filing for bankruptcy after haemorrhaging money for years due to insurance and the legal costs associated with sexual abuse lawsuits. This set off a flurry of news articles that continue today. I use a queer feminist analysis to argue that we must look more closely at BSA history to learn how the organization has always been broadly bankrupt
We Are Not (Yet) Nonbinary
I am addressing this paper to other white temporarily-able-bodied settler feminists interested in moving, not just toward a queer (queerer?) horizon, but toward a nonbinary liberatory futurity as a collective political aspiration (not an identitarian goal of self-actualization). In this paper, I consider how we might mobilize the nonbinary as a freedom practice, a practice building toward a future where we are all free. Imagining and creating a l…
(Re)purposing, not "Rightsizing": Responding to Recent Attacks on Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies in the U.S. Academy
No one wants to be "rightsized," particularly not feminists, and especially not feminists in gender, women's, and sexuality studies programs and departments (GWSS). Yet that's one of the multiple threats we are now facing, and it is both internal and external. These attacks on GWSS and our cousins are not new, but both the university administrators and the politicos are taking advantage of the current pandemonium to ramp up their ferocity. As a G…
Sociology (13 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Art (6 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (6 works) · History (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works)