Thinking Familiar with the Interstitial”

An Introduction

Bibliographic Data

ID12147286
AuthorsKristie Dotson (0000-0002-8055-8228, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume29
Issue1
Pages1-17
Publication date2014-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHypatia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0887-5367 • E-ISSN: 1527-2001
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/hypa.12072
OpenAlexW2052389616
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited4

It's not that we haven't always been here, since there was a here. It is that the letters of our names have been scrambled when they were not totally erased, and our fingertips upon the handles of history have been called the random brushings of birds. (Lorde 1990, ix) Because... [racialized peoples'] dehumanization has not been successful, conceiving of self and others and their exercise of themselves both against dehumanization and toward liberatory possibilities has meant living double lives backed up by peopled ways of living, acting, perceiving, thinking familiar with the interstitial, liminal, and with breaking up with, delinking from, colonial modernity. (Lugones, this issue, 20; my emphasis) We are not born women of color. We become women of color. To become women of color, we would need to become fluent in each other's histories, to resist and unlearn an impulse allowing mythologies to replace knowing about one another.... We cannot afford to cease yearning for each other's company. (Alexander 2002, 91; italics in original)

Aesthetics · Art · Dehumanization · Epistemology · Liminality · Literature · Modernity · Mythology · People of color · Race (biology · Sociology · Visual arts · Women of color · Anthropology · Australian History and Society · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Gender Studies · History · Philosophy · Psychology

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