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{"title":"TransArchitecture","authors":"Adrians Black Varella, Natasha Marzliak","doi":"10.1353/wsq.2023.a910086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2023.a910086","url":null,"abstract":"TransArchitecture Adrians Black Varella (bio) and Natasha Marzliak Redefining its objectives based on the current needs for social change (based on freedom, equality, and mutual aid), Adrians Black (they/their/them)’s radical-social art and its approach to the moving contexts of present times can be a political instrument to unveil and struggle for new landscapes. Their interdisciplinary artworks take the shape of urban interventions, performances, photos, happenings, trans-media events, and environmental projects. They operate the mutual contamination of diverse media that is immersive, collaborative, and participatory in nature and intended to stimulate critical thought (articulating art with anarko-feminist-trans-queer and anti-colonial set of positions). Promoting potency space-times for the uprising of subjective identities that give power to the collective, Black created TransArchitecture drawings (2019—). The project supports the Brazilian indigenous struggle for territories, autonomy, identity difference and against the destruction of forests, operating forms of resistance to hegemonic narratives that represent subjects doomed to subalterity and deterritorialize the modern/colonial project of power, knowledge, and being. TransArchitecture also foresees architectural interference in private and collective homes of LGBTQIA+ people. Starting from the idea that the oppressive logic of rationality shapes, through architectural instrumentation, our bodies and behaviors, marginalizing and submitting bodies that are considered undesirable in a pathologizing and normative perspective of the bipartite female-male condition, TransArchitecture is insurrection. From the different movements of the bodies, it builds new spaces of life and coexistence. It is a flow of contra-position to the structures of these previously marginalized bodies that now vibrate, survivors. It is a dispositive of [End Page 258] worlds that penetrates the base of the traditional architectural structure to present new ways of being, and living together in the world. To paraphrase the philosopher Didi-Huberman, the artworks involving TransArchitecture “are like fireflies of hope.” Click for larger view View full resolution Adrians Black Varella, TransArchitecture, 2019–. Paper and ink. [End Page 259] Adrians Black Varella Adrians Black Varella is a multi-disciplinary artist who makes audio installations, photographs, drawings, performances, video-art experimentations, computer installations, and site-specific/public art works. They create and organize the AnarkoArtLab in New York City, https://www.anarkoartlab.com. Their work can be found at www.adrianavarella. net. They can be reached at adrianavarella@yahoo.com. Copyright © 2023 Adrians Black Varella","PeriodicalId":37092,"journal":{"name":"WSQ","volume":"2 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":"135735934","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}

{"title":"Editor's Note","authors":"Red Washburn","doi":"10.1353/wsq.2023.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2023.0000","url":null,"abstract":"Editor's Note Red Washburn This issue, State/Power, addresses the many bureaucratic and problematic faces of the state—the carceral state, the straight state, the anti-choice state, the anti-immigrant state, the white supremacist state, the fascist state, and the cis state, among others. It explores many critical issues connected to state formations, historical legacies, and structures of power. Some such issues include the following: mutual aid, housing insecurity, reproductive rights, land sovereignty, familial disappearances, juvenile rights, and social movements. The focus on racialized resistance to state power is incisive, allowing for a rich centering of BIPOC identity, history, and struggle at this moment of interminable and egregious anti-Black, anti-trans, white nationalist, and misogynist hatred. Basic human access to jobs, housing, health care, and a livable life are essential at any temporal juncture, though as the global pandemic continues, state power must be excoriated and reenvisioned. Alternatives for a better world are possible with a restructuring and dismantling of social institutions, multinational corporations, and global capitalism. In particular, the academic and activist work on trans of color critiques of carceral states and abolitionist futures as well as the historical remembering of the Third World Women's Alliance and the lessons and possibilities it holds at this current moment are captivating. This issue points to the problems and promises of challenging state power. State/Power is indebted to numerous scholars, writers, artists, editors, and/or editorial staff and boards. During a very difficult time, namely the tragic passing of WSQ general editor Brianne Waychoff, I want to extend a huge thank-you to the WSQ team and editorial board for all their commitment and labor. In particular, I want to thank Dana-Ain Davis at the Center [End Page 9] for the Study of Women and Society and Kendra Sullivan at the Center for Humanities for coming on board as interim editorial directors to oversee managerial operations and funding as WSQ transitions to new general editors later in 2023. Their work has been invaluable to helping the journal grow and thrive. I also want to extend a hearty thank-you to the editorial assistants, Googie Karrass, Maya von Ziegesar, and Angela Boscarino, all of whom worked tirelessly on communicating with the scholars, writers, and artists to make this issue happen. I want to thank the guest editors, Christina Hanhardt and Dayo Gore, for curating and editing this issue. I also want to thank the poetry editors, Cheryl Clarke, Julie R. Enszer, and JP Howard, as well as the prose editors, Keisha-Gaye Anderson, Lauren Cherelle, and Vi Khi Nao. In addition, I want to extend a generous thank-you to Eileen Liang and Natalie Ruby for their administrative assistance with internships in feminist publishing for graduate students in women's and gender studies at the City University of New York. Our partnership ","PeriodicalId":37092,"journal":{"name":"WSQ","volume":"201 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134948789","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}