frottage
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@frottagebook
"seeks to suture. He seeks a spiritual repair of what is broken. It’s a song of longing." Gbenga Adesina review
of Frottage (2019)
olongoafrica.com/our-books-of-2…
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@HolcJanine Non-heteroreproduction *might* threaten some of the patriarchal stuff that heteromarriage and heteroreproduction secure and affirm. I'm simply not sure. Others have thought better about this.
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@HolcJanine That's interesting. Look forward to learning more from you about this.
My tentative guess, not knowing the archive, is that the procreative and genealogical are deeply intertwined: lineage emerges as heteroreproductive.
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That said, I'd be interested to know how you think about procreative frameworks, and what you think they might enable based on the particular archive you're examining.
(Theory never precedes the archive, a teacher taught me, so my questions arise from what I engage.)
Janine Holc@HolcJanine
@frottagebook I have a related question. Do you see any possible gaps between genealogical frameworks and readings, and procreative ones? Might procreative imperatives have different energies than genealogical imperatives?
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And I think the image I keep returning to is that certain approaches and aims—genealogical ones—crowd out other possibilities, and I'm trying to nudge sharply enough that we can try to see other ways to think and live.
Janine Holc@HolcJanine
@frottagebook I have a related question. Do you see any possible gaps between genealogical frameworks and readings, and procreative ones? Might procreative imperatives have different energies than genealogical imperatives?
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I was thinking about this. And I think I have a very narrow answer.
For the specific body of work I was looking at—Black Diaspora—I'm not sure there's a difference between genealogical and procreative approaches, if I understand what procreative means.
Janine Holc@HolcJanine
@frottagebook I have a related question. Do you see any possible gaps between genealogical frameworks and readings, and procreative ones? Might procreative imperatives have different energies than genealogical imperatives?
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@HolcJanine Thanks for the question. I'll think toward it. Frame some kind of answer on Wednesday.
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@frottagebook I have a related question. Do you see any possible gaps between genealogical frameworks and readings, and procreative ones? Might procreative imperatives have different energies than genealogical imperatives?
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So, kinship.
My most honest answer is that I don't know *how* to think about kinship at the suture of Africa and Afro-diaspora so that something called queer is not disappeared.
I don't know how to think about kinship at that suture in a way that does not disappear difference.
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And I've never understood the claim that in some moment of ecstasy, thought is banished.
Certainly, this is not a luxury afforded to many minoritized people.
And if the question is not "will I get sick?" Sometimes it's, "will I be safe during and after this encounter?"
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