List of e-flux essays on queerness/(trans)gender stuff, coloniality, and aesthetics
(Originally posted elsewhere on 4 June 2024.)
Going through some recent essays from e-flux Journal on intersections of gender and trans-ness with colonialism and imperial imaginaries (of music, architecture, geography). Tried to collect most that were relevant in one place. All can be read online:
“Hija de Perra: Writings from a Poor, Aspirational, Sudaca, Third World Perspective” by Julia Eilers Smitth (Journal Issue #140, November 2023)
“Anarcho-Ecstasy: Options for an Afri-Queer Becoming” by KJ Abudu (Journal Issue #139, October 2023)
“Sadistic Chola Manifesto” by Olga Rodriguez-Ulloa (Journal Issue #137, June 2023)
“Reluctantly Queer” by Akosua Adoma Owusu and Kwame Edwin Otu (Journal Issue #137, June 2023)
“Don’t Take It Away: BlackFem Voices in Electronic Dance Music” by Alexander Ghedi Weheliye (theme issue “Black Rave”, Journal Issue #132, December 2022)
“Dark Banjee Aesthetic: Hearing a Queer-of-Color Archive within Club Music” by Blair Black (theme issue “Black Rave”, Journal Issue #132, December 2022)
“A Whale Unbothered: Theorizing the Ecosystem of the Ballroom Scene” by Julian Kevon Glover (theme issue “Black Rave”, Journal Issue #132, December 2022)
“Editorial: Black Rave” by madison moore and McKenzie Wark (December 2022)
“Pasolini and the Queer Revolution in Beirut” by Raed Rafei (Journal Issue #126, April 2022)
“Inappropriate Gestures: Vogue in Three Acts of Appropriation” by Sabel Gavaldon (Journal Issue #122, November 2021)
“Taking the Fiction Out of Science Fiction: A Conversation about Indigenous Futurisms” by Grace Dillon and Pedro Neves Marques (Journal Issue #120, September 2021)
“Editorial: trans femme aesthetics” by McKenzie Wark (Journal Issue #117, April 2021)
“The Cis Gaze and Its Others (for Shola)” by McKenzie Wark (Journal Issue #117, April 2021)
“Our Own Words: Fem & Trans, Past & Future” by Rosza Daniel Lang/Levitsky (Journal Issue #117, April 2021)
“Post-genitalist Fantasies / Temporalities of Latin American Trans Art” by Kira Xonorika (Journal Issue #117, April 2021)
“S/pacific Islands: Some Reflections on Identity and Art in Contemporary Oceania” by Greg Dvorak (Journal Issue #112, October 2020)
“Capitalocene, Waste, Race, and Gender” by Françoise Vergès (Journal Issue #100, May 2019)
“Non-Aligned Extinctions: Slavery, Neo-Orientalism, and Queerness” by Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic (Journal Issue #97, February 2019)
