The fabric of our memories

Leather, kinship, and queer material history

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8090142
AutoresN Van Doorn (0000-0002-7379-8661, University of Amsterdam, autor correspondente)
Ano2015
Volume9
Fascículo1
Páginas85-98
Data de publicação2015-12-28
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoMemory Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1750-6980 • E-ISSN: 1750-6999
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1750698015613975
OpenAlexW2383568170
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas19

This article examines how the practices of self-preservation and other-directed care within Baltimore’s gay leather community are entangled with the material fabric of leather. I argue that leather forms a mnemonic technology that mediates between intimate experience and collective memory, thereby enabling leathermen to develop affective attachments to both the past and the future of their shared form of life. Ultimately, my aim is to attend to the relation between memory and materiality, asking how the material qualities of leather, as treated animal skin, evoke, store, and shape memories and, vice versa, how such memories imbue leather items with emotional, cultural, and political values

Aesthetics · Art · Cognitive psychology · Collective memory · Kinship · Materiality (auditing · Mnemonic · Political science · Politics · Queer · Sociology · Anthropology · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · Law · Psychology