Brown Scriptings and Rescriptings: A Critical Performance Ethnography of Latina Drag Queens

Disidentifications Revisited: Queer(y)ing Intercultural Communication Theory

“…They also described the complexity of intersectional identities that affect the performance of national values and norms (Muñoz, ). In this vein, performances of disidentifications function to politicize and historicize unfamiliar or socially stigmatized identity categories that have led to their marginalization (Chávez, ; Moreman & McIntosh, ). Thus, we assert that a theory of disidentifications allows us to carefully examine intersectional border contestations of sexuality, gender/sex, race/ethnicity, class, and body as simultaneous processes of assimilation and resistance.…”

“…In recent years, queer (of color) communication scholarship (e.g., Alexander, 2008;Chávez, 2013b;Eguchi et al, 2014;McCune, 2014;Moreman & McIntosh, 2010;Snorton, 2014) has been increasing. However, multiple junctures and on-going interplays between the queer and the intercultural remain unpacked (Chávez, 2013a).…”

“…The well-regarded studies such as the effect of processes of cross-cultural adaption (e.g., Gudykunst, 2005;Kim, 2001), inter/cultural identities and negotiation (e.g., Collier, 1998;Collier & Thomas, 1988;Hecht, 1993;Jackson, 2002;Ting-Toomey, 1999), and practices of belonging (e.g., Drzewiecka & Halualani, 2002;Kinefuchi, 2010;Shome & Hegde, 2002) have not paid careful and nuanced attentions to our fluid and complex processes and practices of sexuality, sex/gender, and body. At the same time, the queer (or nonheteronormative) scholarships theorizing about intersectionality (e.g., Alexander, 2010;Carrillo Rowe, 2008;Chávez, 2013b;Moreman & McIntosh, 2010;Morrissey, 2013;Yep, 2013) have been underrecognized as the "mainstream" intercultural communication theory. In this context, we advocate the necessity of queer(y)ing intercultural communication theory further.…”

Negotiating Dialectics in a Communication Activism Collaboration

“…Although descended from applied communication, cultural-critical, and rhetorical studies, communication activism scholarship differs from other forms of communication, social activism, and critical scholarship in an important way: Unlike some of these other scholarly genres, communication activism scholarship always represents "first person perspective communication research directed toward solving significant social issues" (Frey & Carragee, 2007, p. 6). It is immersive (Ceglowski, 2000;Crabtree & Ford, 2007;Duneier, 1999;Frey & Adelman, 1997), and performative (Bennett & West, 2009;Moreman & McIntosh, 2010;Rich, 2010). It results in some progress toward a social justice goal (Campo & Fraser, 2007;Chinchilla, Hamilton & Loucky, 2009;Orbe, 2007).…”

A DREAM Disrupted: Undocumented Migrant Youth Disidentifications with U.S. Citizenship

“…Disidentification is a queer strategy, one that is especially taken up by queers of color as a way to challenge the rigid insider/outsider categorizations created and perpetuated by the laws and logics of the nation-state. In this way, marginalized individuals use disidentification to remake the toxic identity categories that have led to their social isolation (Moreman & McIntosh, 2010). The possibilities that disidentification presents suggest that this subversive strategy might not only disrupt conventional social structures (De Genova, 2010;El-Tayeb, 2011), but also contribute to the development of coalitional subjectivities that rely upon the intersectional nature of identity as the basis for politics and activism.…”