(Re)Presenting Shug Avery and Afrekete: The Search for a Black, Queer, and Feminist Pleasure Praxis

Story, Kaila Adia

doi:10.1080/00064246.2015.1080913

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“…Challenging the binary and heteronormativity can allow the marginalized to counter and redefine deviance. These new identities can help propel political and social change (Story, 2015).…”

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An Intersectional Feminist Perspective on LGBTQ Youth in Foster Care: Implications for Service Providers

Nourie

Harris²

2018

WJE

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LGBTQ children are overrepresented in the foster care system in the United States. These children are also at higher risk for homelessness and suicide. While there are some legal protections for this population, more research and advocacy are needed to help these young people thrive despite their situations. An intersectional feminist perspective on advocacy and queer theory could change the landscape of political activism and training for child welfare professionals. In this article, three activist approaches to training are discussed as ways to revolutionize advocacy and treatment of LGBTQ youth in child welfare. The authors propose 1) providing intersectional and feminist principles in child welfare diversity training modules, 2) including the exploration of self-identity in these trainings, and 3) developing a better understanding of how heteronormative bias and perceptions of deviance can be perpetuated.

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“…Challenging the binary and heteronormativity can allow the marginalized to counter and redefine deviance. These new identities can help propel political and social change (Story, 2015).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Intersectional Feminist Perspective on LGBTQ Youth in Foster Care: Implications for Service Providers

Nourie

Harris²

2018

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“…. outwit[ing] dominance and victimry”; Vizenor, 1998, p. 93; see also Battiste, 2008; Grande, 2004), while Black Feminist and queer theorists have similarly pursued research by epistemically/ontologically/axiologically centering joy and pleasure (“politics of pleasure,” Morgan, 2015, p. 36; “the erotic,” Lorde, 1978, p. 339; see also Cooper, 2018; Dillard, 2000; hooks, 1993; Lawrence-Lightfoot, 1983; Lindsey, 2015; Story, 2015). These desire-based modes of inquiry have sought to examine the workings of oppression, violence, loss, and despair, only if these investigations take into account “the hope, the visions, the wisdom of lived lives and communities” (Tuck, 2009, p. 417; see also Tuck, 2010), and “the complex, messy, sticky, and even joyous negotiations of agency and desire” (Morgan, 2015, p. 36; see also Dillard et al, 2000; Lindsey & Johnson, 2014; Wong & Peña, 2017).…”

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The Wretched of the Research: Disenchanting Man2-as-Educational Researcher and Entering the 36th Chamber of Education Research

Wong

2021

Review of Research in Education

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Compulsory state-sanctioned schooling continues to be constructed as the “great equalizer,” and accordingly education research as a benevolent contributor to this material and ideological project of education. Following a Fanonian-Wynterian theoretical approach and cosmogonical-constellatory citation politics, I narrowed over 2,500 educational studies and reviewed approximately 150 articles and chapters that questioned the ways of knowing, being, and valuing which have naturalized these assumptions. Consequently, I theorize the cosmogony and development of the overrepresented genre-specific figure of educational researcher emerging from Man2-as-human, who has come to control the ways of knowing “education” and being an “educational researcher”: Man2-as-educational researcher. I examine how overlapping and interconnected African/Black, Asian, Latinx, Pacific Islander and Indigenous communities have engaged in modes of resistance, survivance, fugitivity/marronage, refusal and abolition to challenge this regime, and enact and imagine genres of being an educational researcher outside of the dominant order of Man2-as-educational researcher. In turn, I consider how these communities have affirmed, honored, fostered, sustained and revitalized ways of gathering, interpreting, and sharing educational knowledge for collective liberation, which have centered the wretched of the research and gaze from below. In so doing, I conceptualize and call forth the need to move toward what I am referring to as the 36th chamber of education research.

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Religio-erotic Experience and Transoceanic Becoming at the Shoreline in Audre Lorde’s Zami

Coleman Taylor

2023

Journal of the American Academy of Religion

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In her biomythographical work Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, Audre Lorde’s lover Afrekete appears as a Black queer femme who alters her sense of self and her being through religio-erotic experience. After tracing the spirit who inspired Lorde’s Afrekete throughout the Americas, I propose a theory of the shoreline as a site of transoceanic becoming, or the experience of self-identification required to navigate the Western world as an African diaspora being. I focus primarily on the ontologies of Black trans and queer femmes and the unconscious yet necessary process of becoming at the intersections of existence.

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(Re)Presenting Shug Avery and Afrekete: The Search for a Black, Queer, and Feminist Pleasure Praxis

Cited by 4 publications

References 2 publications

An Intersectional Feminist Perspective on LGBTQ Youth in Foster Care: Implications for Service Providers

An Intersectional Feminist Perspective on LGBTQ Youth in Foster Care: Implications for Service Providers

The Wretched of the Research: Disenchanting Man2-as-Educational Researcher and Entering the 36th Chamber of Education Research

Religio-erotic Experience and Transoceanic Becoming at the Shoreline in Audre Lorde’s Zami

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