'Where might we go if we dare': moving beyond the 'thick, suffocating fog of whiteness' in feminism. (December 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lewis, Gail; Hemmings, Clare
• Other Names: Eloit Ilana guest-editor.; Hemmings Clare guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Feminist theory. Volume 20:Number 4(2019)
• Page Start: 405
• Page End: 421
• Publication Date: 2019-12
• Subjects: Black feminist critique -- haunting -- political practice -- psychoanalysis -- subjectivity -- trans* -- white femininity; Feminist theory -- Periodicals; 305.4205
• DOI: 10.1177/1464700119871220
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1464-7001

Abstract

This article explores the multi-pronged relation between individual and collective haunting and political investments in divergent feminist and queer formations. Taking the form of an interview conversation, it traces the trajectories of a political life in sites ranging from the kitchen and the demonstration to the conference and the writing page, and on the way marking the possibilities and limitations of various political-intellectual traditions linked to social justice and freedom in pursuit of being and becoming otherwise. It foregrounds a refusal to accept the terms set by dominant political framings alongside and through a commitment to intersubjectivity and exploration of creative possibility opened up in spaces of excess.