Activism and the Academy: A Utopian Proposition
If happiness and optimism appear too often as individual, psychological, overbearing and annoying to those excluded from their complacent joys, doesn’t hope sometimes arrive in collective, political...
View ArticleWildness: A Fabulation
A response to a discussion with Wildness filmmakers Wu Tsang and Roya Rastegar. This conversation took place on March 1, 2013 and kicked off the The Scholar & Feminist Conference 2013: “Utopia.”...
View ArticleThe Familiar and the Strange
A response to the presentations “Queer Pedagogies in Public Places” by Jennifer Miller and “Tilting Pedagogies as Utopian Intervention – Outrage, Desire, and the Body in the Classroom” by Marisa...
View ArticleCollaborations
A response to the panel “Expanding Feminism: Collaborations for Social Justice” at the conference Activism and the Academy: Celebrating 40 Years of Feminist Scholarship and Action. Watch the video...
View ArticleMonologues for Colored Girls: Shange’s Influence on Barnard’s All...
these stains & scars are mine this is my space i am not movin —Shange, nappy edges, (a cross country sojourn) The first time I heard the name Ntozake Shange, I was still in high school. I was...
View ArticleLearning How to Listen: Ntozake Shange’s Work as Aesthetic Primer
What follows is a purely subjective analysis. The primer of my title refers to several meanings of the word: A prayer book or devotional manual for the use of lay people. A book that covers the basic...
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“walkin on the edges of the galaxy”: Queer Choreopoetic Thought in the...
In her 1978 essay, “takin a solo/ a poetic possibility/ a poetic imperative,” Ntozake Shange interrogates literatures and criticism that submit to demands of racial representation over the...
View ArticleIntroduction: Singing a “Black Girl’s Song” at Barnard and Beyond
it is possible to start a phrase with a word and end with a gesture/ that’s how I’ve lived my life/ that’s how I continue to study /produce black art —Ntozake Shange, “why I had to dance”[1] In the...
View Article“There is No Incongruence Here”: Hispanic Notes in the Works of Ntozake Shange
Download “‘There is No Incongruence Here’: Hispanic Notes in the Works of Ntozake Shange” (PDF) here. Reprinted with permission from CLA (College Language Association) Journal. Vanessa K. Valdés’...
View ArticleAbout this Issue
This double issue emerges out of the 2013 Worlds of Shange conference held at Barnard College and celebrates the important work and life of Barnard alumna Ntozake Shange (BC ’70). “The Worlds of...
View ArticleArchive from Below: Selections from Interference Archive
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View ArticleShooting Theory – An Accident of Fast Feminism
January 16, 2014 University of Toronto From the colloquia series “Feminist & Queer Approaches to Technoscience” Rebecka Sheffield: I am very excited to introduce our speaker today, Dr. Shannon...
View ArticleMy Hero: A Media Archaeology of Tiny Viewfinderless Cameras as Technologies...
This essay draws from visual studies, feminist science and technology studies, and performance studies to put into historical perspective the popular phenomenon of the small viewfinderless action...
View ArticleLocal Autonomy Networks: Post-Digital Networks, Post-Corporate Communications
March 27, 2014 University of Toronto From the colloquia series “Feminist & Queer Approaches to Technoscience” Gabby Resch: micha cárdenas has one of those really rich, descriptive bios that looks...
View ArticleMy Hero: A Media Archaeology of Body-Mounted Technologies of the Self
January 30, 2014 University of Toronto From the colloquia series “Feminist & Queer Approaches to Technoscience” Ashley Scarlett: Lisa Cartwright is an artist and a professor at UC San Diego, where...
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Final Frontier: Heritage Villages, Collective Memory, and Urban Futures
French sociologist Bruno Latour has talked about the incredible career that the term “design” has had: “From a surface feature in the hands of a not-so-serious-profession that added features in the...
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Enigma Symbiotica
Enigma Symbiotica is a multi-year project on the enigmatic riddle of our symbiosis with increasing technologized modes that are rapidly accelerating our demise. In this video, I begin to crack the code...
View ArticleFinal Frontier: Heritage Villages, Collective Memory and Urban Futures
April 10, 2014 University of Toronto From the colloquia series “Feminist & Queer Approaches to Technoscience” Blake Williams: Good afternoon, thank you for coming. Today I have the honor and the...
View ArticleBlack Data
February 13, 2014 University of Toronto From the colloquia series “Feminist & Queer Approaches to Technoscience” Shaka McGlotten: Why are Black people important? This is how comedian, geek, and...
View ArticleJ. G. Ballard and the Pornographic Imaginary
April 3, 2014 University of Toronto From the colloquia series “Feminist & Queer Approaches to Technoscience” Ashley Scarlett: Dr. Zabet Patterson is a force. Since completing a PhD in rhetoric at...
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