A Light for a Light

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ID4052105
AuthorsSandra Ruiz (0000-0001-6011-418X, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume21
Issue2
Pages455-479
Publication date2022-10-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMeridians (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1536-6936 • E-ISSN: 1547-8424
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/15366936-9882141
OpenAlexW4308914905
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited14

How does loss tear a hole in the world and produce a collective remaking of a new social order in which grief-work is not contained singularly but is a process done in feminist, queer, and Black and Brown ensemble? Interested in how we deliberately incorporate loss into collective grief-work, this article pulls from feminist and queer theorists of color who move across social and psychical constructions of sorrow. Highlighting contemporary art by minoritarian artists such as Eva Margarita Reyes and Pedro Lopez, who embrace loss, the author argues that grief-work is a communal labor we undergo together in acts of intimate meditation, suffering, spillage, and transformation. Happening in feminist and queer ensemble, grief-work is a deliberate decision to assemble in nonlinear feelings and attachments; it is an intention to work together to defend not only the dead but also the living, tending to immaterial energies that shift the fecund terrain of both life and death

Aesthetics · Art · Disenfranchised grief · Feeling · Grief · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Queer · Sociology · Sorrow · Gender Studies · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Latin American and Latino Studies · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Social Psychology

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