"Thinking Familiar with the Interstitial": An Introduction. (13th January 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Dotson, Kristie
• Is Part Of: Hypatia. Volume 29:Number 1(2014:Spring)
• Page Start: 1
• Page End: 17
• Publication Date: 2014-01-13
• Subjects: Feminist theory -- Periodicals; Feminism -- United States -- Periodicals; Femininity (Philosophy) -- Periodicals; 305.4201
• DOI: 10.1111/hypa.12072
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0887-5367

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main" id="hypa12072-abs-0001"> <title> <x xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <p> <boxed-text content-type="quotation" id="hypa12072-blkfxd-0022" position="anchor" orientation="portrait"> <p>It's not that we haven't always been here, since there was a here. It is that the letters of our names have been scrambled when they were not totally erased, and our fingertips upon the handles of history have been called the random brushings of birds. (Lorde <xref ref-type="link" rid="hypa12072-bib-0004">1990</xref>, ix)</p> </boxed-text> <boxed-text content-type="quotation" id="hypa12072-blkfxd-0023" position="anchor" orientation="portrait"> <p>Because… [racialized peoples'] dehumanization has not been successful, conceiving of self and others and their exercise of themselves both against dehumanization and toward liberatory possibilities has meant living double lives backed up by peopled ways of living, acting, perceiving, thinking familiar with the interstitial, liminal, and with breaking up with, delinking from, colonial modernity. (Lugones, this issue, 20; my emphasis)</p> </boxed-text> <boxed-text content-type="quotation" id="hypa12072-blkfxd-0024" position="anchor" orientation="portrait"> <p>We are not born women of color. We become women of color. To become women of color, we would need to become fluent in each other's histories, to resist and unlearn an impulse allowing mythologies to replace knowing about one another…. We cannot afford to cease yearning for each other's company. (Alexander <xref ref-type="link" rid="hypa12072-bib-0001">2002</xref>, 91; italics in original)</p> </boxed-text> </p> </abstract>