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From José Esteban Muñoz’s Disidentifications: Identification, then, as Sedgwick explains, is never a simple project. Identifying with an object, person, lifestyle, history, political ideology, religious orientation, and so on, means also simultaneously and partially counteridentifying, as well as only partially identifying with different aspects of the social and psychic world.  Although the various processes of… Continue reading Journal Entry 2- Emily Zhang

“In order to be utilized, our erotic feelingsmust be recognized. The need for sharing deepfeeling is a human need. But within theEuropean-American tradition, this need is sat-isfied by certain proscribed erotic comings-together. These occasions are almost alwayscharacterized by a simultaneous looking away,a pretense of calling them something else,whether a religion, a fit, mob violence, or… Continue reading Journal 2- Grace Li

For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action.” Poetry Is Not a Luxury – Audre Lorde… Continue reading Journal Entry 2 – Danny Flores

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest external horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives. Lorde, Audre. “Poetry Is Not a Luxury (1985)”. Sister Outsider, Penguin Books, 2019. In this passage… Continue reading Journal Entry 2 – Dasia Hall

For black males to take appearing in drag seriously, be they gay or straight, is to oppose a heterosexist representation of black man-hood. Gender bending and blending on the part of black males has always been a critique of phallocentric masculinity in traditional black experience. Yet the subversive power of those images is radically altered… Continue reading Journal Entry 2 — Amy Chou

Muñoz Identifications Although The Devil Finds Work goes on to discuss Baldwin’s powerful identifications with Hollywood’s small group of black actors, this mediated and vexed identifications with Davis is one of the most compelling examples of the process and effects that I discuss here as disidentification. The example of Baldwin’s relationship with Davis is a… Continue reading Journal Post 2, Joe Byun

Muñoz’s Disidentifications Intro. In his introduction to his writings on Disidentification José Esteban Muñoz writes that “Disidentification is about recycling and rethinking encoded meaning. The process of disidentification scrambles and reconstructs the encoded messages of a cultural text in a fashion that both exposes the encoded message’s universalizing and exclusionary machinations and recircuits its workings… Continue reading Discussion Two, Chloe Weg.

My name is Anna Cho and I am a third year Biology major here at Emory! I am on the pre-PA track. When I was younger I used to love reading anything fiction and would only read in my free time, but that stopped once I hit middle school and I never really picked up… Continue reading Anna Cho

Hi! My name is Arpita Govil and my pronouns are she/her. I am a senior majoring in Biology on a pre-med track and doing research on the treatment of pain associated with endometriosis which I am super passionate about! I also love animals; I have two dogs at home and work with rats and mice… Continue reading Arpita Govil

Hi! My name is Chris Cardenas (they/she) and I am a junior double-majoring in QSS and Art History. When not at Emory, I live in central Florida with my big Mexican family of six where silence is never a possibility. My relationship with reading and writing has been very prominent in my academic and personal… Continue reading Chris Cardenas