Browsing by Subject "Queer theory"
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- ItemIntersectional Identity: Psychological Well-Being of Queer of Color Individuals(2015) Diaz, Emily; Wang, Shu-wenRecent studies have focused on the ever growing field of identity development in specific cultural identifiers, such as sexual orientation and racial identity. By conducting a literature review of material pertaining to these areas of study, this article summarizes several key theories pertaining to the identity development of queer of color adolescents and emerging adults. By analyzing the potential combined effects of resilience, minority stress, identity development skills, and affirmation, new conclusions are drawn about what social interventions may help queer of color individuals develop social identities with greater ease. Potential conflicts of queer of color identity, such as sexual risk behavior and internalized homophobia, are discussed. The article ends by suggesting future directions of research so that more accurate, generalizable information may be gathered about this vastly expansive, under-examined field of anthropological and psychological study.
- Item"Such loss is no loss": Exploring Queer Poetics in H.D.'s Archive and "Eurydice"(2019) Oberholtzer, Tess; Mohan, RajeswariThis essay investigates the queer poetics of reticence and disidentification in the modernist poet H.D.’s personal archive and poem “Eurydice.” Using a letter found in the Bryn Mawr Special Collections that H.D. wrote to her friend John Cournos in 1919, this essay explores Catherine Imbriglio’s concept of reticence as a means of creating a disruptive alternative space within language that allows for a navigation of the publicity of queerness from within the closet. In approaching “Eurydice” the essay turns to José Muñoz’ idea of disidentification, and highlights H.D.’s reticence as an act of disidentification before going on to explore the ways H.D. disidentified both from the classical tradition that she engages with in “Eurydice” and from modernism itself. H.D.’s disidentification provides a case for a conceptualization of queerness as a non-relational identity that is not confined to one’s choice of partner, which in turn advocates for an expansion of the queer community, and for queer theory to be brought to bear upon a broader range of social and cultural phenomena.
- ItemThe Future of Next Wednesday Night: Douglas Crimp's Queer Planning in an Early Year of AIDS(2024) Cohen-Mungan, Shana; Reckson, Lindsay Vail, 1982-In this essay, I close read Douglas Crimp’s 1987 weekly planner to offer a theory of what I call the “queer planning” that unfolds on and around its pages. Queer planning is the improvisational process of devising social connectivity through the quotidian gestures which underly and complement various scales of social movement to fashion an impossible future. I focus on the everyday acts of imagination, experiment, and collaboration that José Esteban Muñoz, Fred Moten, and Stefano Harney connect to queer of color potentiality and fugitive planning, hoping to open a sense of how queer relation sustained itself amidst the AIDS catastrophe’s decimation of social life. Queer planning revises theories of queer (anti)futurity which either deny queerness access to the future or situate queerness on a distant horizon, aligning with a death drive or utopia respectively. Instead, planning engages a queer future as physically and temporally proximate as the planner’s weekly scope, insisting on a temporality of possibility amidst mass death.