Intimate internationalisms

1970S 'Third World' queer feminist solidarity with Chile

Bibliographic Data

ID4367281
AuthorsTamara Lea Spira (University of Oregon, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume15
Issue2
Pages119-140
Publication date2014-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFeminist Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1464700114528768
OpenAlexW2330398932
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited28

This article theorises the relationship between 1970s US Third World queer and feminist movements and Latin American anti-imperialist revolutions of the late twentieth century. I focus upon the historically occluded relationships between Third World feminists and queers in Chile and the United States throughout the transition to neoliberalism. My archive includes June Jordan's little-known writings on Chile, the writings of Audre Lorde, and, primarily, a 1973 Third World feminist poetry reading staged in San Francisco shortly after the Pinochet coup. By assembling this unconventional archive, I intervene into the domestication of US anti-racist queer, black and feminist of colour politics. I argue for the profoundly internationalist foundation of these formations. I work to re-animate a moment when the affective economies of anti-colonial 'global revolution' opened up space for the imagination of joint struggle - allowing a visceral sense of struggle's urgency and vitality in ways that have since been partially eclipsed

Latin Americans · Neoliberalism (international relations) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Queer · Sociology · Solidarity · Gender Studies · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law

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