Decolonial, TransFeminista Queer Praxis

module: Decolonialism at the border

commentary: Decolonial Theory

Decolonial theory has been particularly significant, across and beyond the Americas, for feminist scholarship. Yet, feminist scholars have been some of its most incisive critics, both for what they perceive as decolonial theory’s analytic limitations resulting from a lack of attention to gender and sexuality, and for a gap they see between theoretical conversations and actual political projects. This latter position is one most prominently espoused by Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, who has explicitly disavowed decolonial theory even as she continues to be cited as one of its key practitioners. Feminist contributions to decolonial theory debates include a recent turn to lesbian, transgender, and queer critique. Let’s explore the con-and-dis-junctures between feminist theory emergent from South American–to-US intellectual networks, on the one hand, and, on the other, U.S. Latinx border theory as emergent from radical movements since the mid-20^th Century. More closely articulating these two theoretical trajectories may address Cusicanqui’s otherwise-devastating critique that decolonial theory lacks adequate praxis.

1. Asher Kirin Spivak and Cujsicanqui FS2017.pdf

(recommended: Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui “The Potosí Principle: Another View of Totality” “DECOLONIAL GESTURE” E-MISFÉRICA VOLUME 11 | ISSUE 1 |2014 http://hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/en/emisferica-111-decolonial-gesture/e111-editorial-remarks)

2. Sayak Valencia: excerpt from Capitalism Gore Valencia Sayak Gore Capitalism selections.pdf or Capitalismo_Gore_de_Sayak_Valencia.pdf (please read Ch.5)

(recommended: Sayak Valencia “Interferencias transfeministas y pospornográficas a la colonialidad del ver” “DECOLONIAL GESTURE” E-MISFÉRICA VOLUME 11 | ISSUE 1 |2014 http://hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/en/emisferica-111-decolonial-gesture/ (Google will translate the online text into English))

3. Sylvia Wynter “Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation--An Argument” CR: The New Centennial Review, Volume 3, Number 3, Fall 2003, pp. 257-337. Wynter unsettling colonialisty of being.pdf

4. Pick a selection from below from the recommended list

Please Review:

Breny Mendoza “Coloniality of Gender and Power: From Postcoloniality to Decoloniality” The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory Edited by Lisa Disch and Mary Hawkesworth Online Publication Date: Apr 2015 DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199328581.013.6

Recommended:

Facundo Giuliano y Daniela Godoy (with Judith Butler) “Redoing Gender in a postcolonial key. An ethical-political dialogue from Latin America with Judith Butler / Rehacer el género en clave pos-colonial. Un diálogo ético-político desde América Latina con Judith Butler” Páginas de Filosofía, Año XVI, Nº 19 (enero-julio 2015), 203-234 Departamento de Filosofía, Universidad Nacional del Comahue ISSN: 0327-5108; e-ISSN: 1853-7960 http://revele.uncoma.edu.ar/htdoc/revele/index.php/filosofia/index

Emma Perez “Decolonial Border Queers: Case Studies of Chicana/o Lesbians, Gay Men, and Transgender Folks in El Paso / Juárez” in Arturo Aldama, Chela Sandoval, Peter Garcia eds. Performing the US Latina and Latino Borderlands IU Press 2012 (on ProjectMuse)

Silvia-Rivera-Cusicanqui-Chixinakax-Eng1.pdf

Kirin Asher Latin_American_Decolonial_Thought_or_Mak.pdf

Dei Black like me reframing blackness for decolonial politics.pdf

Daigle & Ramirez Decolonial Geographies 9781119558071.ch14.pdf

review of cpmes-barris extractive zone.pdf

Greensmith_and_Giwa Challenging settler colonialsim contemp queer politics.pdf

Driskill, Qwo-Li. "Insurrections: Indigenous Sexualities, Genders and Decolonial Resistance." Journal of Global Indigeneity 1, no. 1 (2015): 2. Diskill insurrections indigenous sexualities, gender, and decolonial resistance.pdf

Tania Gentic (2015) “Rethinking the Cartesian subject in Latin America and Spain: decolonial theory and María Zambrano's philosophy” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, 16:4, 415-435, DOI: 10.1080/14636204.2015.1116746

Emma Perez “Queering the Borderlands” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Volume 24, Number 2 & 3, 2003, pp. 122-131Scapegoat_06_Valencia_NAFTA Capitalismo Gore.pdf

AQ Volume 66, Number 3, September 2014 Special Issue: Las Américas Quarterly

Edited by Licia Fiol-Matta & Macarena Gómez-Barris

Maria Lugones “Milongueando Macha Homoerotics: Dancing the Tango, Torta Style (a Performative Testimonio)” in Arturo Aldama, Chela Sandoval, Peter Garcia eds. Performing the US Latina and Latino Borderlands IU Press 2012 (on Project Muse)

Daphne V. Taylor-García “Decolonizing Gender Performativity: A Thesis for Emancipation in Early Chicana Feminist Thought (1969–1979)” in Arturo Aldama, Chela Sandoval, Peter Garcia, eds. Performing the US Latina and Latino Borderlands IU Press 2012 (on ProjectMuse)

Jill Lane, Marcial Godoy-Anativia and Macarena Gómez-Barris “What decolonial gesture is” “DECOLONIAL GESTURE” E-MISFÉRICA VOLUME 11 | ISSUE 1 |2014 http://hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/en/emisferica-111-decolonial-gesture/e111-editorial-remarks

Emma Perez Decolonial Imaginary (IU Press99)

Lisa Lowe "Decolonization, Displacement, Disidentification: Writing and the Question of History" in Immigrant Acts

Monica Hanna , Jennifer Vargas, José David Saldívar, eds. Junot Díaz and the decolonial imagination (Duke16) http://site.ebrary.com/lib/iub/detail.action?docID=11175538

Paula Moya “Dismantling the master's house : the decolonial literary imaginations of Audre Lorde and Junot Díaz in Monica Hanna , Jennifer Vargas, José David Saldívar, eds. Junot Díaz and the decolonial imagination (Duke16) http://site.ebrary.com/lib/iub/detail.action?docID=11175538

Rowe Settler Xicana.pdf