Curating Performance: Taking Up Space
One day symposium on curating performance
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Futures of American Studies Dartmouth College
“PÒTOPRENS: The Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince,” co-written with Maureen Catbagan, Brooklyn Rail, October 2018
essay on exhibit of works from Haitian artists at Pioneer Works October 2018
Cambridge University Press, Elements in Feminism series (co-edited with Jennifer Cooke and Jill Richards), forthcoming
Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies (co-edited with Kyla Wazana Tompkins, Aren Aizura, Aimee Bahng, Mishuana Goeman, and Karma Chavez), NYU Press 2021
Wiser Public Positions Series Fanon After Fanon
“Care and Its Complexities” co-edited with Martha Feinman and Linda Blum Signs (in process)
Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance
Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance (NYU Press, 2018) turns toward sensation and aesthetics in order to imagine epistemologies of sensuality that emerge from fleshiness. Using analyses of particular works of art, each chapter draws attention to specific aspects of pornotropic capture that black and brown people must negotiate while also identifying moments of brown jouissance that exceed these constraints. In addition to containing critiques of normativity and proffering epistemologies of sensuality against those of sexuality, the book argues for sensation and aesthetics as minoritarian forms of knowledge.
Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism
Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism (NYU Press, 2014) uses masochism as a lens to theorize different felt relationships to power. The book beings together debates on masochism within feminism, discussions of masochism from psychoanalysis and critiques of colonialism, literary presentations of masochism, and performance and visual art that draws on masochism’s repertoire in order to make an argument about the relationship between sensation and knowledge production and the racialization of our current episteme of sexuality.