Reading Notes
Urvashi Vaid’s vision of the ongoingness of politics
For me, Duke University Press’s publication of the selected writings of Urvashi Vaid in a volume titled The Dream of a Common Movement has come at just the right time. I suspect there are many of us who need this book, and Vaid’s vision, now and for other possible futures beyond authoritarianism.
Yard work in Kevin Adonis Browne’s A Sense of Arrival
Browne’s portrait and query create a verbal and visual direct address to a reader whose arrival Browne can only sense, leaving open the possibility—inevitability—of future encounters.
Multimodal Derek Jarman
My title “Multimodal Derek Jarman” foregrounds Jarman’s diverse, multimodal practices of art and politics, which I have immersed myself in over the past month. It also intentionally echoes the phrase “Queer Derek Jarman” used on a banner announcing an exhibition of his work at the Manchester City Art Gallery (now Manchester City Gallery) in 1992.
The Politics and Poetics of Citation
One question Glück explores in About Ed is how to write aboutness—a quality that combines nearness with a certain imprecision.
Bob and Ed’s Tomb
One question Glück explores in About Ed is how to write aboutness—a quality that combines nearness with a certain imprecision.
“Probably Filmic” - Ali Smith’s There but for the
Our capacity (or not) for empathy is central to all of Ali Smith’s work.
Drawing en Abyme
I describe drawing en abyme as a method-image for thinking about how graphic narratives stage identity as a process of becoming through drawing.
Illness Politics as a Practice of Love
The portraits here are deeply moving. Thrasher has a way of capturing community activists in action by providing touching details about their character and work along with careful analysis of the structural violence they are up against.