We're Here! We're Queer! Fuck the Banks

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ID3625201
AutoresAlison Rose Reed (autor correspondente)
Ano2022
Volume28
Fascículo2
Páginas227-247
Data de publicação2022-04-01
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGLQ A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1064-2684 • E-ISSN: 1527-9375
EditoraDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/10642684-9608147
OpenAlexW4293108382
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas11

Literalizing the metaphor of José Esteban Muñoz's famous statement, "Queerness is not yet here. . . . The here and now is a prison house," this essay argues that the process of affectively reorienting space and minds toward abolition is a queer act. It posits that abolition and queerness overlap in their refusal to maintain faith in institutions to effect change, specifically through legal reforms that redouble the status quo while shunning broader visions of liberation. Queer abolitionist affects reorient space toward decolonial futures by challenging normative paradigms of power and its critique. In messy and imperfect ways, a queer abolitionist analysis understands love and collectivity more capaciously beyond the nuclear family unit to social relations not of domination but of transformation. By exploring the affective dimensions of queer abolition, this essay takes up the spatial and symbolic relationship between the Pride parade and the prison industrial complex. It brings together an analysis of public protest against the colonial-carceral state and prison education, specifically the Humanities Behind Bars program, in order to engage how queer affects strengthen and sustain the relationships so vital to abolitionist world making

Aesthetics · Art · Criminology · Power (physics · Prison · Queer · Sociology · Vision · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Gender Studies · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Race, History, and American Society

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