Witnessing the archive
Stormé DeLarverie and queer performance historicity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12370146 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Evan Mitchell Schares (0000-0003-3163-6987, Villanova University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 250-267 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Text and Performance Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1046-2937 • E-ISSN: 1479-5760 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10462937.2020.1807045 |
| OpenAlex | W3049343275 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
This essay animates witnessing as method to engage the performance historicity constellating the photographic archive of Stormé DeLarverie (1920–2014). The archive resists historical white representations of queer activism prior to and during the Stonewall rebellion by telling the story of a Black butch lesbian drag king, Stormé DeLarverie, whose archival presence glimmers with queer acts of resistance and wondrous aesthetic performance. By witnessing DeLarverie’s queer life and drag career in the shadows of diasporic struggle and anti-queer and anti-Black state brutality, I provide an analysis of how queer embodied history may become witnessed and preserved through vernacular photographic aesthetics
Aesthetics · Art · Historicity (philosophy · Lesbian · Political science · Politics · Queer · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Gender Studies · History · Law · Law in Society and Culture
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |