Queer Emergencies, 5.26.2017

Autores/as

  • Colin Whitworth Southern Illinois University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18432/ari29331

Palabras clave:

poetry, LGBTQ , queer studies, Chechnya, social justice

Resumen

Hal Foster (2015) asserts that art should address emergencies. While he speaks of visual and performance arts, I extend his claim to poetry. As such, I use my positionality of queer individual as an entrance point to using poetry to address queer emergencies. Starting with Hegel’s (1975) articulation that the lyric form of poetry starts with our own subjectivity and shows a “coming to consciousness” (Culler, 2015, p. 2) through thought and reflection, this poetry addresses a pressing queer emergency of our current political moment (Chechnya), while also extending its reach to/through the intersections with other queer emergencies of today’s climate. Through this inscription of the present, I strive to illuminate the personhood of queer victims, the intersections of current queer emergencies, and the temporal and real proximity of emergency to those of us who might feel safe based on other identity intersections.

Biografía del autor/a

Colin Whitworth, Southern Illinois University

Colin Whitworth is a Ph.D. candidate in the Communication Studies Department at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale with a focus in performance studies. His research focuses on two primary tracks: the intersections of queer and regional identity and the relationship between art, and critical applications of method.

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Publicado

2018-03-01

Cómo citar

Whitworth, C. (2018). Queer Emergencies, 5.26.2017. Art/Research/International:/A/Transdisciplinary/Journal, 3(1), 190–201. https://doi.org/10.18432/ari29331