Inside the Black (W)hole
A Queer Black Feminist Retrospective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4792164 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shoniqua Roach (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 1-11 |
| Publication date | 2024-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | differences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1040-7391 • E-ISSN: 1527-1986 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/10407391-11259619 |
| OpenAlex | W4402973925 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 18 |
This essay introduces a spirited cross-disciplinary and intergenerational queer black feminist dialogue about what Evelynn Hammonds's 1994 differences essay "Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality" has meant, and continues to mean, for queer black feminist knowledge production and (academic) subject formation within and beyond the United States. Across ten essays and one poem, contributors to this special issue of differences interrogate what it means for queer black feminists to labor in a field under constant erasure; to argue for the possibilities for queer and trans and sick black women's erotic agency in the context of hostile institutional formations such as the academic and medical industrial complexes; and to analyze the relevance of empirical black holes for theorizing polymorphous black female sexualities and erotic freedoms. From inside the black (w)hole, contributors chart the history, present, and futurity of Hammonds's "Black (W)holes," and, by extension, the black diasporic feminist, lesbian, queer, and trans intellectual and sociopolitical life-worlds in its wake
Queer · Sociology · Computer Science · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Race, History, and American Society
Righteous discontent
Feminist Theory Reader
Reflections on the Black Woman's Role in the Community of Slaves
Confinement, Interiority, Black Feminist Study
Mapping the Margins
A Black Feminist Statement
Telling feminist stories
Against Proper Objects
Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality
Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens
The Cult of True Womanhood
Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe
Monstrous Intimacies
Wayward lives, beautiful experiments
(Re)turning to 'Rape and the Inner Lives of Black Women
African-American Women's History and the Metalanguage of Race
Rape and the Inner Lives of Black Women in the Middle West
Policing the Black Woman's Body in an Urban Context
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |