Black Queer Ethics, Family, and Philosophical Imagination

BIBLICAL PORN: AFFECT, LABOR, and PASTOR MARK DRISCOLL'S EVANGELICAL EMPIRE. By JessicaJohnson. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. Pp. 248. Paper, $25.95.

“…This language invokes not only Susan Harding (), whom Johnson discusses, but also other anthropological encounters that challenge the division between ethnographer and fieldwork community, such as Janice Boddy (), under the influence of ritual drumming, fearing herself slipping toward zar spirit possession, Tanya Luhrmann () during her time with British Pagans, waking to a vision of three druids at the foot of her bed, or Jill Dubish (), in a moment of peril, making a pilgrimage pledge to the Madonna of the Annunciation. Scholars who are frank about moments when they realize that they have invested more of themselves in their work than they consciously planned help to subvert the tired ideal of an objective observer unmoved by human, and other‐than‐human (Hallowell ), relationships (Castor ; Durrani ; Pérez ; Young ; Zwissler ).…”

Taking Children’s Moral Lives Seriously: Creativity as Ethical Response Offline and Online

“…When Young reminds us that moral imagination is survivalist, she does not mean it in this sense. Rather, she is pointing toward survival amidst systems of oppression and the need for prophetic moral alternatives (Young 2016). A creative moral response along these lines define "winning" as or building a world to end the oppression of others.…”

A Queer and Feminist Defense of Being Anonymous Online

“…As a set of politics or ethics, queerness and feminism each contain broad and multi-faceted coalitions. While I do not have the space in this paper for an extended discussion of these discourses, it is important to recognize that feminism has been substantively critiqued for prioritizing white, middle and upper class cis and straight women, and failing to recognize or include the queer, trans and BIPOC perspectives [15] [18]. Similarly, queer politics have frequently emphasized the experiences and priorities of cis, white men while ignoring lesbians and trans people, as well as bisexuality and the complexities of intersectional subjectivities [18].…”

“…While I do not have the space in this paper for an extended discussion of these discourses, it is important to recognize that feminism has been substantively critiqued for prioritizing white, middle and upper class cis and straight women, and failing to recognize or include the queer, trans and BIPOC perspectives [15] [18]. Similarly, queer politics have frequently emphasized the experiences and priorities of cis, white men while ignoring lesbians and trans people, as well as bisexuality and the complexities of intersectional subjectivities [18]. Moreover, feminist and queer politics have often been in opposition, for example in the efforts of so-called trans-exclusionary radical feminists ("so-called" because it is contested that these views are either radical or feminist -See [16]).…”