Ianna Hawkins Owen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 8515690 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ianna Hawkins Owen |
| NOMBRES | Ianna Hawkins |
| APELLIDO | Owen |
| FIRMA | OWEN I H |
| AFILIACIONES | Williams College |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 4 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
“Freedom Lovers”
This chapter amplifies the abolitionist potential at the heart of asexuality studies. Though the social constructions of the incarcerated and the asexual appear to be at odds, this chapter demonstrates how they co-construct one another and offers a new lens on the coalitional possibilities of asexuality studies and black studies through the keyword “freedom.” In a close reading of two poems by former Black Panther Party leader Ericka Huggins, “[U…
Dead Tired
This essay concerns the descriptions of exhaustion connected to the suicidal thoughts and actions of Anyanwu, the protagonist of Octavia E. Butler’s novel Wild Seed (1980). Expanding the disability studies concept of desirelessness to graze Black diaspora studies, this essay resists the total absorption of enslaved Black women’s suicidal thoughts and actions into the collective political motivations of the living, even as it resists their banishm…
More
In response to the widely circulated asexual provocation “Why have sex when there is cake?” this essay explores the productive overlap between asexuality's nonsexual pleasures associated with food and feedism's sexual pleasures associated with eating. Building on a long-standing interest in Audre Lorde's interventions concerning erotic pleasure, “More” theorizes “quantity” as an antihierarchical queer framework for perceiving, thinking, and holdi…
Still, Nothing
Although many iterations of the mammy in the last two centuries have received analytical attention, the construction of this figure as asexual or undesiring and undesirable remains to be interrogated. This essay attends to this under-theorised dimension of her image. Resisting a reading of the mammy as fixed in silence, I assert that she might instead 'say nothing', and bring into focus a black asexual agency that I call a declarative silence. Th…
Still, Nothing
Although many iterations of the mammy in the last two centuries have received analytical attention, the construction of this figure as asexual or undesiring and undesirable remains to be interrogated. This essay attends to this under-theorised dimension of her image. Resisting a reading of the mammy as fixed in silence, I assert that she might instead 'say nothing', and bring into focus a black asexual agency that I call a declarative silence. Th…
Still, Nothing
Although many iterations of the mammy in the last two centuries have received analytical attention, the construction of this figure as asexual or undesiring and undesirable remains to be interrogated. This essay attends to this under-theorised dimension of her image. Resisting a reading of the mammy as fixed in silence, I assert that she might instead 'say nothing', and bring into focus a black asexual agency that I call a declarative silence. Th…
More
In response to the widely circulated asexual provocation “Why have sex when there is cake?” this essay explores the productive overlap between asexuality's nonsexual pleasures associated with food and feedism's sexual pleasures associated with eating. Building on a long-standing interest in Audre Lorde's interventions concerning erotic pleasure, “More” theorizes “quantity” as an antihierarchical queer framework for perceiving, thinking, and holdi…
“Freedom Lovers”
This chapter amplifies the abolitionist potential at the heart of asexuality studies. Though the social constructions of the incarcerated and the asexual appear to be at odds, this chapter demonstrates how they co-construct one another and offers a new lens on the coalitional possibilities of asexuality studies and black studies through the keyword “freedom.” In a close reading of two poems by former Black Panther Party leader Ericka Huggins, “[U…
Dead Tired
This essay concerns the descriptions of exhaustion connected to the suicidal thoughts and actions of Anyanwu, the protagonist of Octavia E. Butler’s novel Wild Seed (1980). Expanding the disability studies concept of desirelessness to graze Black diaspora studies, this essay resists the total absorption of enslaved Black women’s suicidal thoughts and actions into the collective political motivations of the living, even as it resists their banishm…
Aesthetics (3 obras) · Art (3 obras) · Gender Studies (3 obras) · Law (3 obras) · Political science (3 obras) · Race, History, and American Society (3 obras) · Sociology (3 obras) · Literature (2 obras) · Psychoanalysis (2 obras) · Psychology (2 obras)