This year’s theme asks us to engage with “knowledges too often dismissed,” and in doing so, we call for scholarship on trans musicking and trans historical approaches to musical culture, echoing Dana Baitz’s conception of a trans musicology that...
The words which conclude James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time—“God gave Noah the rainbow sign / No more...
Through a collection of vignettes, Kathleen Stewart’s Ordinary Affects argues for the value of studying...
They called her the “doctor of the projects.” Martha, of Hartford, Connecticut, was a mother of six and a domestic for a white-owned hotel downtown. She did not have two letters behind her name nor did she get her learning from a college classroom. Yet, for...
Many issues have been highlighted by recent protests against police violence, from qualified immunity from prosecution of law enforcement to increased support for radical change up to and including police abolition. This panel seeks to provide sustained attention to the subject of...
This project is designed and executed as a collaborative art and active citizenship FoodAct. A meal created from foodstuffs/dishes that four individuals/archetypes enjoyed eating/cooking was made and shared with four elders/archetypes in my community, along with a series of tea towels designed...
This panel historicizes the harms leveled by the white middle class’s appropriation of Audre Lorde’s investment in self-care. More specifically, we consider how aspirational white “wellness” culture has emerged as a force that obscures the violence embedded...
Fires and freezes. Breath and sweat. Sweets and salt. Screams and silence. Fresh crops and pungent fertilizers. These are only a few of the sensations that animate the American South. The 2022 conference theme “invites strategies that draw our attention to and command a multisensory,...
The U.S. academy inherits a scientific secularism that was structured by a centuries-long portrayal of African and indigenous religions as “fetishes”—cosmologies, as we might call them rather than religions, deemed by Euro-Enlightenment gatekeepers of Reason to be...
What is it like teaching Critical Race Theory (or what might be construed as "CRT" by mainstream political discourse as framed by right-wing talking points) as contingent workers in the academy without the promise of continued employment after the semester ends?
The purpose of this...
