Shimmers Below the Surface: Emergent Strategy and Movement Building through 2-QTPOC Media

Authors

  • Anabel Khoo York University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25071/2292-4736/40243

Keywords:

emergence, media making, worlding, movement building

Abstract

Two-Spirit, Queer and Trans People of Colour (2-QTPOC) media offer paradigms for visions and practices of collective liberation and decolonization. Because 2-QTPOC media can reveal the metaphysical and affective among political imaginings and realities, this work attempts to track the haunting attachments, the emergent political, and the queerness inherent to the worlding that media making enacts, as a form of movement building and transformative healing. This work highlights the cultural work of Mangos with Chili, a two-spirit, queer and trans people of colour (2-QTPOC) multi-genre media performance collective, currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area, to explore the complexities among materiality, representation and embodiment by asking: How can attending to 2-QTPOC media reveal potentialities of the political? What shimmers at the boundaries of intelligibility and memory?

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Published

2015-10-13

How to Cite

Khoo, A. (2015). Shimmers Below the Surface: Emergent Strategy and Movement Building through 2-QTPOC Media. UnderCurrents: Journal of Critical Environmental Studies, 19, 6–14. https://doi.org/10.25071/2292-4736/40243

Issue

Vol. 19 (2015): From Queer/Nature to Queer Ecologies: Celebrating 20 Years of Scholarship and Creativity

Section

Academic

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