#feminisms
A note on the blog content regarding sex, gender and sexuality
I usually keep my personal politics off this space, but after some activity in the last few weeks, I’m going to briefly speak up about it. I’m uncomfortable with people with anti-LGBTQ views twisting some of the feminist works on this blog towards justifying sowing discord. As a writer and academic it’s my view that that is taking the work outside of its original context, and it isn’t a view that I as a member of that community - that includes *all* the letters, on the spectrum of sex and gender experience and presentation, share.
Intersex people exist. People with variant chromosomes, statistical outliers to the generic paradigm, and people who wish to correct difficulties with hormone therapy, all exist. This does not run counter to texts that explore the experience of people without those conditions or complications, nor does it call them into question.
This blog does not support anti-intellectual misuse of work to further harmful agendas. That’s not the purpose of research, and in my mind, a waste of the short time each of us has on this earth.
I’ve been waiting patiently for these chapbooks to arrive and they are finally here! Dived right into DESIRES BECOME DEMONS because I love everything Meena Kandasamy touches. I’m equally excited for the other three titles (swipe to see), especially AGAINST HEALING. Published by @tiltedaxispress through @kickstarter crowdfunding.
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“This book will make you mad…but in the best possible way.”
- LIz Plank
No taking it back now, lol. Presale available in the U.K. http://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Rage-Becomes-Her/Soraya-Chemaly/9781471172113
and in the US
http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Rage-Becomes-Her/Soraya-Chemaly/9781501189555
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The second your actions intentionally work to make a marginalized person feel small, disposable, replaceable, or usable, you are no longer acting within an intersectional framework. #criticalracetheory #feminisms #reminder
https://www.instagram.com/p/CHbXPQYnuID/?igshid=190dbvedi73gh
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Hitchcock’s Bi-textuality Lacan Feminisms And Queer TheoryBY ROBERT SAMUELS
EN VENTA AQUI
This book combines three elements: an articulation of Lacan’s theory of ethics; a discussion of recent theories of feminine subjectivity and queer textuality; and close readings of Hitchcock’s films. Hitchcock’s Bi-Textuality argues that just as Freud posited a fundamental ground of bisexuality for every subject, we can affirm a form of universal “bi-textuality” that is repressed through different modes of representation, yet returns in unconscious aspects of textuality (dreams, word play, jokes, and symbolism). In order to illustrate this notion of bi-textuality, this work discusses how Hitchcock’s films are extremely heterogeneous and present multiple forms of sexual identification and desire, although they have most often been read through the reductive lens of male heterosexuality.
Throughout this book, the work of Julia Kristeva, Kaja Silverman, Judith Butler, Luce Irigaray, and Slavoj Zizek is examined. One of the central concerns is the way that different psychoanalytic and feminist theories tend to equate the Real and the unconscious with the feminine. This feminization of the Real tends to block the awareness of the bisexual nature of the unconscious. In order to return to Freud’s fundamental theory of polyvalent sexuality, recent notions of queer sexuality and textuality are explored. This book extends psychoanalytic theory by incorporating new feminist and queer conceptions of sexuality and representation.
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