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Situating Black, Situating Queer: Black Queer Diaspora Studies and the Art of Embodied Listening[Note 1. I must first thank Shaka McGlotten for inviting me ...]
Author(s) -
Gill Lyndon K.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
transforming anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.325
H-Index - 9
eISSN - 1548-7466
pISSN - 1051-0559
DOI - 10.1111/j.1548-7466.2011.01143.x
Subject(s) - queer , embodied cognition , diaspora , subjectivity , situated , sociology , gender studies , articulation (sociology) , aesthetics , queer theory , subject (documents) , intersectionality , art , epistemology , politics , philosophy , political science , computer science , artificial intelligence , library science , law
This article elaborates one Black queer subject's sense of self and gestures toward the potential theoretical intervention this subjectivity poses. However, it begins by situating Black queerness in conceptual and geographic space. It proposes the usefulness of an anthropologically informed embodied listening practice for Black Queer Studies and foregrounds situated, speaking Black queer subjects in the articulation of a Black Queer Diaspora Studies. Finally, it approaches a wider geo‐conceptual metaphor for the transdisciplinarity required if we are to take seriously the seductive invitation to speculate Black and queer at once.