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Self-Portrait with Mom Fixing My Hair 妈妈给我整理头发的自画像
WSQ Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1353/wsq.2023.a910064
Linc Ross
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The Old Days, from S/HE The Old Days,选自S/HE
WSQ Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1353/wsq.2023.a910082
Minnie Bruce Pratt
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Another Way to Fly, from Terry Dactyl 《另一种飞行方式》,出自Terry Dactyl
WSQ Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1353/wsq.2023.a910092
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
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The Nonbinary Blackness of Pauli Murray and Ornette Coleman: Constraint and Freedom within the Glandular Imaginary Pauli Murray和Ornette Coleman的非二元黑暗面:腺体想象中的约束与自由
WSQ Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1353/wsq.2023.a910079
Susan Stryker
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“Mic check, one, two, one, two”: Hip Hop Heresies: Queer Aesthetics in New York City “麦克风检查,一,二,一,二”:嘻哈异端:纽约的酷儿美学
WSQ Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1353/wsq.2023.a910088
Rocio Rayo
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The Resistant Body 抵抗性身体
WSQ Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1353/wsq.2023.a910075
Abby C. Emerson
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Not to Be Dramatic But 不要太夸张,但是
WSQ Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1353/wsq.2023.a910080
Kyra Gregory
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Queerly Comprehensible: The Nonbinary Art of Kris Grey 奇怪的理解:克里斯·格雷的非二元艺术
WSQ Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1353/wsq.2023.a910077
Chris Straayer
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Wondrous Bodies: Trans Epistemology and Nonbinary Saints 奇妙的身体:跨认识论和非二元圣徒
WSQ Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1353/wsq.2023.a910074
C. Libby
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Hybridity 杂种性
WSQ Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1353/wsq.2023.a910097
Ximena Keogh Serrano
{"title":"Hybridity","authors":"Ximena Keogh Serrano","doi":"10.1353/wsq.2023.a910097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2023.a910097","url":null,"abstract":"Hybridity Ximena Keogh Serrano (bio) In the 19th century,the term Hybrid becomes the noun used to connote a person of mixed race;rooted in the botanical and zoological conception of cross-breeding,Hybrid does what it saysshifts habitat Like European colonizers, settling over the Americascenturies before,the linguistic sign daggers into dictionaries—keen to address the biological and cultural spheres of human contact Contact such a beautiful word that sense of with-ness so lovelyand yet, how its underside shrivelsperverse Like when Contactcame to denote what emergedfrom the arrival of shitface to today’s so-called America [& here, as always, I mean the continent]Where other names include:Discovery Invasion Creation Encounter Disaster DICED is what we are : : [End Page 302] In hybriditythere is always a winning racethrough embodiment, the winner surfaces via codesascribed to levels of pigmentation In a family, the possibilities of color are infinitesimalHues, like reproductive history, mount across the genealogical pool& so, symbolic wins and losses shape our so-called human form Even as you strive to renounce itto shame its contemptable constructHybridity clings to our skins, to our mouths, to our speech actsJust as the fabricated scale of the Great Chain of Being told us white wasabove all,we believed it& so our complicity with harm Mine, came in tiny explosionsbarbarous acts Before I could even name it—as in that wish for wholeness, that wanting to be that which I was notI, impure mix For impurity is an element of hybridityThe want drilled a hunter in me In the fold of an in-between carnal coatI could be a questionwhile keeping my mouth closed In the observation field, I would learn just howto renounce my Andean lines, cut them coldso as to ennoble the European switchblade in me We all become half-experts in the duties of the colonial enterpriseWe are so very well trained [End Page 303] I for one have killed so many parts of me,I can’t even remember where I left her herher [End Page 304] Ximena Keogh Serrano Ximena Keogh Serrano is a poet and scholar of Latin American and U.S. Latinx literary and cultural studies. Her research and writing move across genres of literary criticism, visual culture, and studies in gender and sexuality. She is an assistant professor at Pacific University, and lives in Portland, Oregon. She can be reached at xkserrano@pacificu.edu. Copyright © 2023 Ximena Keogh Serrano","PeriodicalId":37092,"journal":{"name":"WSQ","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135735563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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