“I’m Sorry My Hair Is Blocking Your Smile”

Alexander, Bryant Keith; Stephenson-Celadilla, Ayshia Elizabeth; Alhayek, Katty; Twishime, Porntip Israsena; Sutton, Timothy; Hernández-Ojeda, Carmen G.; Moreira, Claudio

doi:10.1525/irqr.2019.12.4.339

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“…It crosses borders. At the 2019 ICQI, I watched a performance of I'm Sorry My Hair is Blocking Your Smile (Alexander et al, 2019), a story of how nothing is culturally neutral; even hair can be laden with racism and othering. Thus, autoethnography can be a call to activism (Holman Jones et al, 2013;Poulos, 2020), setting me to wonder what type of activism might be revealed through an exploration of geometry through the visual arts.…”

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Making Visible the Invisible

Crowley¹

2022

Art/Research International

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This article documents how I came to combine autoethnographic accounting with visual arts practice. I developed this mixed methods approach for my PhD study which explores the interdisciplinary possibilities offered by combining visual arts practice with STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). Visual arts practices as narrative forms tend toward the non-linear (Anae, 2014), whilst autoethnography offers self-reflection. Writing an autoethnographic account for an artwork has the potential to generate a wealth of data, some of which are visible, some of which are not. The invisible data become available only when the artist speaks to/writes about the artwork. If some content/context of a visual artwork is only visible through background information provided by the art maker, this discovery troubles another issue concerning our notions of what a good visual artwork is. Finally, I test this article’s autoethnographic authenticity against Adam’s four characteristics of autoethnography.

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Making Visible the Invisible

Crowley¹

2022

Art/Research International

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“…Male puberty and female menopause, turns out not binaries! It's all about hair baby, all about the hairs (Alexander et al, 2019). Hair and language, that is.…”

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Trans*Forming Bodies Is Hopeful Politics

Harris

2022

International Review of Qualitative Research

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The truth-telling in his piece is sin quo non to the unmasking needed to forge pathways to new gendered possibilities in troubled times toward transformative futures. I explore the affective embodied experience of living as a non-binary transmasculine person in a binary world. Drawing on the work of Jack Halberstam, Tami Spry, and Bryant Keith Alexander, this essay (and performance) is shared with/through my testosterone-lowered voice, my masculine-appearing body, and my non-binary orientations that ask the world to avoid the pitfalls of binarized gender relations. Performance autoethnography has long held space in the academy for the foregrounding of non-majoritarian lived experience through affective, interpersonal, and embodied strategies, and this piece builds on those traditions.

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Asian American Heritage Seeking: Toward a Critical and Conscious Study Abroad Curriculum

Twishime

2022

Historically Underrepresented Faculty and Students in Education Abroad

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“I’m Sorry My Hair Is Blocking Your Smile”

Cited by 7 publications

References 6 publications

Making Visible the Invisible

Making Visible the Invisible

Trans*Forming Bodies Is Hopeful Politics

Asian American Heritage Seeking: Toward a Critical and Conscious Study Abroad Curriculum

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