On the (im)possibility of black British queer studies

Cummings, Ronald

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“…In his recent article "On the (Im)possibility of Black British Queer Studies", Ronald Cummings (2020) intervenes into black British scholarship by three distinct inroads: first, he observes ways in which queerness has been marginalized in recent conceptualizations of the field; second, he discusses how the specific context of the UK has been similarly sidelined in transatlantic representations of black queer studies, which have focussed on the US American, Canadian, and Caribbean contexts; third, he posits that the process of opening up black British studies to queerness must not be limited by the national as the primary marker or categorizer but instead must be multi-directional, acknowledging and following a transnational as well as transatlantic trajectory.…”

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“…1 Whilst there is a trend toward rediscovering and/or reexamining British-Caribbean and British-African writing and postwar culture with regard to its queer (dis)contents (e.g. Hoad 2007;Hoyle 2010;Batra 2016;Gairola 2016;Houlden 2013Houlden , 2017Cummings 2020), this is by no means a mainstream movement, but one in continuing need of centring. In other words, queerness is still in the process of acquiring a proper "house" or "home" in black British scholarship; in turn, black queer scholarly perspectives are still becoming more attuned to the specificities of the British context.…”

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Queer Home-Making and Black Britain: Claiming, Ageing, Living

Koegler

2020

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black British context and to disempowering narratives of queer diaspora. They position queer ageing, frequently couched in silences and/or heterosexist othering, as central for demands and representations of queer viability, and thus for legitimizing queer claims to citizenship. The novels thus offer diverse contributions to an ongoing process of making a home for queerness in imaginations of black Britain. Read in the current context of surging racism, populism, and homophobia, they also stand as stark reminders of the diversity and validity of non-normative life paths as well as of the legitimacy and humanity of those seeking "liveable lives" in Britain and elsewhere.

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Queer Home-Making and Black Britain: Claiming, Ageing, Living

Koegler

2020

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Geographies of race and ethnicity 3: Black Geographies of creativity

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2024

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On the (Im)possibility of the Kurdish Queer

Sandal-Wilson

2024

South Atlantic Quarterly

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Scattered across four countries in the Middle East, Kurds are one of the largest stateless nations in the world and have long been portrayed as pawns within imperial interventions in the region, both by some sections of the Left as well as within authoritarian right-wing politics. In parallel, a specific vein of postcolonial theory has treated queer/LGBTI+ activism in the region as “alien,” “foreign,” and even as a Trojan horse of imperialism, an idea that has been taken up, again, by sections of the Left as well as right-wing authoritarian politicians. Adopting the doubly illegitimized subject position of the “Kurdish queer” as its point of departure, this article highlights the importance of taking the situated knowledge and political analyses of Kurdish queers seriously to uncover histories of violence as well as the multiple layers of queer, postcolonial, and decolonial imagination. Doing so, the author argues, puts theory and visions of democracy under productive scrutiny, stretching them in critical directions. The article concludes that an investment in or curiosity for Kurdish queer studies is needed to complicate our understanding of the history and politics of the region, as well as how sexuality and conflict are entangled.

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On the (im)possibility of black British queer studies

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Queer Home-Making and Black Britain: Claiming, Ageing, Living

Queer Home-Making and Black Britain: Claiming, Ageing, Living

Geographies of race and ethnicity 3: Black Geographies of creativity

On the (Im)possibility of the Kurdish Queer

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