Abjection

Phillips, Robert F.

doi:10.1215/23289252-2399470

Cited by 35 publications

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“…After the commercial eviction of the Motherlode, the building owners re-leased the space to a dry cleaning and wash-and-fold operator. When the staff and patrons learned about plans for the Gangway, they were angry about the cruel use of tropes of abjection 68 to literally and discursively sanitize their home bar of nearly 60 years of queer and trans occupancy.…”

Section: Scene One: a Cruel Opportunity To Walk The Gangwaymentioning

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Three recent scenes in the affective life of gentrification in San Francisco’s Polk Gulch

Scott

Parekh

2020

cultural geographies

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Drawing on the ‘reparative turn’ in queer feminist scholarship, we situate a commemorative march that took place in late March 2018 in the Polk Gulch neighborhood of San Francisco as an entry point into the affective conditions of living in and through a period of intensifying urban development. Complete with a brass band, drag queens dressed in mourning, and black banners, participants stopped at the sites of former gay bars and other commercial establishments where they laid wreaths, offered eulogies, and affectively asserted the social and historical significance of these places. Nine months later, we interviewed organizers and participants and analyzed recordings of the event in order to register the sensate conditions that preceded, pervaded, and followed in the wake of the March. In so doing, we unravel the ‘undecidability of the urban’ in which residents call into question the impacts of gentrification. Through our tripartite engagement with the affective contours of the March, we situate the procession less as a discrete ceremonial event to re-inscribe collective memories in urban space or to lay claims to a right to urban territory, than as a momentary effort to work out and through the ongoing, shared feelings of loss in an increasingly unlivable city. By attending to the felt conditions of urban development, we argue for foregrounding shared sentiments as a viable pathway to opening up relief from, if not alternatives to, the ongoing displacements and dispossessions of the neoliberal city.

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Section: Scene One: a Cruel Opportunity To Walk The Gangwaymentioning

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Three recent scenes in the affective life of gentrification in San Francisco’s Polk Gulch

Scott

Parekh

2020

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“…Psychologist Robert Phillips states that, the term abjection literally means “to cast out” (Phillips, 2014, p. 20). Abjection refers to the instability of gendered ambiguous bodies – especially those occupied by transgender individuals – which historically has received negative connotations and harsh statements, all of which contribute to transphobia (Phillips, 2014, pp. 20–21).…”

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Ministry to Transgender Teenagers (Part One): Pursuing Awareness and Understanding about Trans Youth

Canales

2018

J Pastoral Care Counsel

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Several significant aspects are addressed in this article to gain clarity and to pursue awareness regarding transgender teenagers. It begins by offering a brief introduction and then moves towards a common understanding of the language and landscape surrounding transgender teenagers. Next the paper centers on maligned, marginalized, and misunderstood transgender teenagers and the experiences they encounter. Hopefully, the information gleaned in this article will empower pastoral care givers to minister directly to this particular underserved sexual minority group.

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“…A regressive view of gender aligned with social and religious conventionalisms pathologizes trans people as abnormal and deviant. As Robert Phillips says, transgender bodies, much like homosexual identities, are elements of defiance that threaten – and cause fear to – the established order, since they do not abide by the culturally constructed notions of sex and gender (2014: 20). It is for this reason that the pathology of abjection is employed against these groups.…”

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Undressing the Virgin Mary: Nudity and Gendered Art

Pérez-Gil¹

2017

Feminist Theology

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Stripping the Virgin Mary of the myths, stories, and dogmas surrounding her is a task that has particularly appealed to a branch of feminist theology which seeks to reclaim her as a figure of female empowerment. This article aims to explore the transformation of Mary’s body into an element of resistance in the work of some contemporary artists. By depicting her nude or semi-nude, artists disrupt the gender values commonly associated with the Virgin and open up alternative possibilities of affirmative selfhood through her body. I contend that, in these works, the Virgin’s body functions as a ‘relational’ body that enters into dialogue with hitherto marginalized categories, such as the carnal, the sensual, the notion of fleshly materiality, or even the excluded sexualities of transgender people.

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Abjection

Cited by 35 publications

References 5 publications

Three recent scenes in the affective life of gentrification in San Francisco’s Polk Gulch

Three recent scenes in the affective life of gentrification in San Francisco’s Polk Gulch

Ministry to Transgender Teenagers (Part One): Pursuing Awareness and Understanding about Trans Youth

Undressing the Virgin Mary: Nudity and Gendered Art

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