The Queer Migrant Poemics of #Latinx Instagram

Noel, Urayoán

doi:10.1353/nlh.2019.0053

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“…Others, especially young Afro/Black-Latinx writers and activists, have called for the "canceling" of latinidad in personal essays, podcast interviews, and social media posts (Harris, 2022;Hinjosa & Varela, 2021;Martinez, 2019;Noel, 2019;Salazar, 2019;Simone, 2020). For instance, Alan Pelaez Lopez (2018), an Afro-Indigenous formerly undocumented poet, artist, and public intellectual born in México City, coined the hashtag #latinidadiscancelled on their Instagram feed in 2018.…”

Section: The Problem With "Latinidad"mentioning

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Piloting the Counter-Memorias Digital Testimonio Project

Hicks-Alcaraz

2023

IJIDI

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The vision for the Counter-Memorias Digital Testimonio Project is to create an online non-custodial archive of video-recorded testimonios and pedagogical resources centered on the memories and experiences of women from Latin American and Caribbean diasporas living in Southern California. The project centers on those with social identities traditionally excluded from homogenous conceptualizations of latinidad, including, but not limited to Afro/Black, Indigenous, Asian, Central American, Muslim, Queer, Trans, and multi-racial/ethnic identities. In doing this, the project seeks to reformulate the Latin American oral history methodology of testimonio to engage the voices of those often excluded from U.S. Chicana/Latina theorization of the genre, while critiquing colonial power relations. As a part of this process, the project de-centers Western digital archives methods by employing the everyday technologies used by diasporic migrant women (e.g., mobile phones and WhatsApp) to forge networked connections with loved ones. Currently, in its pilot phase, this essay focuses on the process of recording the project’s first testimonies, which come from two Garifuna women, a grandmother and a granddaughter. Garifuna (or Garinagu) are an Afro/Black Indigenous people descended from Carib and Arawak peoples and West Africans who escaped colonial enslavement during a shipwreck in the 15th century near the Caribbean Island known today as St. Vincent. The intervention made here is an attempt to highlight the stories of those who have been systemically erased, guided by the principles of reciprocity and redistributive relations to achieve social transformation even in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles. In this regard, I hope that our testimonio process will enact new modes of storytelling that move us further toward a translocal ethical-political strategy of liberation.

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Section: The Problem With "Latinidad"mentioning

confidence: 99%

Piloting the Counter-Memorias Digital Testimonio Project

Hicks-Alcaraz

2023

IJIDI

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Julio torres and the queer potentialities of U.S. Central American representation

Rossi

2022

Critical Studies in Media Communication

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A Digital Revolution? Insiders, Outsiders, and the “Disruptive Potential” of Instapoetry

Miller

2021

Arcadia

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Whilst frequently dismissed as “cliché, banal, derivative, portentous, repetitive, and manipulative” (Hodgkinson), offering little other than “fidget-spinner” distractions to appease the masses (Roberts), Instapoetry is a slippery, intricate mode. The simplicity of its aesthetic belies its complex political manoeuvrings, marked by an imperative towards a progressive ideology that contests the sexism and racism of dominant culture. Indeed, despite its “byte-sized” accessibility (Bresge), Instapoetry is deceptive, evoking discourses of ‘outsiderness’ that locate the genre within an often-problematic logic of rebellion. Examining black feminist Instapoets such as Aja Monet, Yrsa Daley-Ward, and Nayyirah Waheed, as well as ‘superstars’ of the genre, including Rupi Kaur, Atticus, and Nikita Gill, this paper argues that there is a persistent disjuncture between the extra-textual commentary surrounding Instapoetry, particularly by way of interviews and artistic statements, and the content of works which repeatedly reinscribe conservative, patriarchal, and heteronormative worldviews. Whilst the pithy convenience of new media poetries has undoubtedly helped magnify oppressed voices and perspectives, it has also, more cynically, fostered an insistence on universality that erases complexity and difference in the (largely aesthetic) interests of harmony, and the appeasement of both dominant and minority cultures.

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The Queer Migrant Poemics of #Latinx Instagram

Cited by 3 publications

References 21 publications

Piloting the Counter-Memorias Digital Testimonio Project

Piloting the Counter-Memorias Digital Testimonio Project

Julio torres and the queer potentialities of U.S. Central American representation

A Digital Revolution? Insiders, Outsiders, and the “Disruptive Potential” of Instapoetry

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