Queer Optimism

Snediker, Michael D.

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“…Recently, queer and critical race theorists have engaged with affect theory as a way to explore the relevance of negative emotions without moralizing or re‐entrenching subjects in restrictive ideology or biology (Eng ; Sedgwick ; Ahmed ; Edelman ; Gilroy ; Ngai ; Ghandi ; Clough and Halley ; Love ; Snediker ; Berlant ). Despite the seeming “newness” of the attention given to affect at the turn of the century, Clara Fischer argues that this interest in affect has a distinct history in feminism, thus extending from and contributing to an interest in the emotions and materiality long pursued by feminist scholars (Fischer , 816).…”

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“Everything Being Tangled Up in Every Other Thing”: Class, Desire, and Shame in Michelle Tea'sThe Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America

McKenna¹

2018

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This article explores the relationship of shame to class and to desire in Michelle Tea's memoir The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America. Through applying a class analytic to the framework of shame recently advanced by feminist, queer, postcolonial, and affect theorists, I foreground shame as central to the experience of being poor and queer, and examine shame as not only negative and positive, but as productive. I operationalize an “oppositional reading strategy” to insist on attention to the materiality of embodied desire and labor, in particular queer desire and sex work, that is made available in poor and working‐class women's life‐writing. Tea's memoir demonstrates how writing about an ambivalent relation to shame is an act of resistance, an opportunity to transform private, individual experiences into public, and therefore collective, articulations.

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“Everything Being Tangled Up in Every Other Thing”: Class, Desire, and Shame in Michelle Tea'sThe Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America

McKenna¹

2018

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“…Sense invokes a discrete period, while affect presumes a more extensive durée. Thus, I situate the sense of upness alongside the attitudes of optimism and hope (Berlant, 2011; Muñoz, 2009; Snediker, 2008) and the affect of happiness (Ahmed, 2010). Sense emphasizes the momentary that operates distinctly from longer investments in or atmospheres of possibility that optimism and happiness require.…”

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Feeling Down(town Julie Brown): The Sense of Up and Expiring Relationality

Yapp¹

2018

Journal of Visual Culture

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During the late 1980s and 1990s, the presence of women of color dancing on film and television greatly increased: Rosie Perez in Do the Right Thing, the Fly Girls from In Living Color, and Downtown Julie Brown hosting Club MTV. These figures were highly energetic and up, marking a positivity that can be distinguished from the depressed affects that have been centralized for the 21st century. This article historicizes the sense of up to rethink the terms available for not only the affective turn but also relationality. The latter draws from the former to contend with how different communities relate to one another through shared sensations, precarity, or commons. The author examines the temporal dynamics embedded in sense and affect to analyze the theoretical bases (from Kleinian object relations to Deleuzian intensities) that produce the relational. In doing so, the author engages Rashaad Newsome’s Shade Compositions (2009), which reperforms these earlier up practices. Ultimately, this article rethinks relationality by placing an expiration on the way it is presumed to sustain itself. Relational connections cannot be stabilized nor assume that one can fully know the other. The author thus proposes an ethics for relationality that can be traced through the sense of up’s entwinement with racialized forms of rage, ‘killing it’, and exhaustion. Sense and anger produce pathways to engage one another again and again.

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Conclusion: A Closing for Queer Thriving

Greteman

2018

Sexualities and Genders in Education

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Queer Optimism

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“Everything Being Tangled Up in Every Other Thing”: Class, Desire, and Shame in Michelle Tea'sThe Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America

“Everything Being Tangled Up in Every Other Thing”: Class, Desire, and Shame in Michelle Tea'sThe Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America

Feeling Down(town Julie Brown): The Sense of Up and Expiring Relationality

Conclusion: A Closing for Queer Thriving

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