Celebrating with the Dead This essay seeks to explore the celebration of the dead, with the dead, as a collaborative way of mourning, drawing from the experience of celebrating the fifth anniversary of my grandfather’sdeath with my Japanese-Brazilian family. I will argue that this approach challenges the modern Western perspective onmourning. I draw on the… Continue reading 37.1 | Julia Ferry
Month: November 2024
37.1 | Carmijn Gerritsen
(Re)Imagining Black Britishness: Identity Politics, Belonging and Celebration in A Portable Paradise and Assembly Multicultural identities are integral to defining notions of ‘new Britishness,’ yet are rarely acknowledged in the British cultural narrative. This article demonstrates how Roger Robinson’s A Portable Paradise (2019) and Natasha Brown’s Assembly (2021) represent Black Britishness by employing counter-hegemonic images.… Continue reading 37.1 | Carmijn Gerritsen
36.2 | Anna Ziering
“I Want Them To Feel Everything”: A Conversation with SfSx Creator Tina Horn Sex is omnipresent in Tina Horn’s graphic novel series SfSx. Investigating consent and coercion, sex work and censorship, the demonization of female sexuality and the exercise of radical, gender-inclusive queer pleasure, SfSx de-sensationalizes kink without reducing its eroticism. Along the way, it… Continue reading 36.2 | Anna Ziering
37.1 | Dewi Kopp
Celebrating Curaçaoan Creoleness in Buladó In 2020, the film Buladó made history by winning the prestigiousGouden Kalf award, becoming the first movie spoken in Papiamentu to do so. Set in Curaçao, the narrative delves into the island’s creolized society through its characters’ struggles with identity. Drawing from “In Praise of Creoleness” by Bernabé et al.,… Continue reading 37.1 | Dewi Kopp
37.1 | Andries Hiskes
This Is Only Delay: The Celebratory Epideictic and the Act-Like in Mary Szybist’s Annunciations This article close reads two of Mary Szybist’s poems that engage with the scene of the biblical annunciation, and complicate the conventional celebratory perception of that event. It analyzes how Szybist’s poems leverage the performative aspect of lyric poetry to challenge… Continue reading 37.1 | Andries Hiskes
37.1 | Foreword
Nienke Veenstra and Isolde Kors In the foreword to this issue, editors-in-chief Nienke Veenstra and Isolde Kors discuss celebration, and introduce the articles making up this issue.
36.2 | Anna Ziering
“I Want Them To Feel Everything”: A Conversation with SfSx Creator Tina Horn Sex is omnipresent in Tina Horn’s graphic novel series SfSx. Investigating consent and coercion, sex work and censorship, the demonization of female sexuality and the exercise of radical, gender-inclusive queer pleasure, SfSx de-sensationalizes kink without reducing its eroticism. Along the way, it… Continue reading 36.2 | Anna Ziering
36.2 | Constanza Contreras Ruiz
Relating Otherwise: Erotic Power, Indigenous Relationality, and More-Than-Human Entanglements in Natalia Diaz’s “The First Water is the Body” This essay analyzes human and more-than-human entanglementsin Natalie Diaz’s poem “The First Water is the Body,” seeing the poem as a space where such relations proliferate, and drawing attention to the poet’s explicit refusal to label them… Continue reading 36.2 | Constanza Contreras Ruiz
36.2 | Sam Forrey
Discerning New Feminisim from Sadomasochistic Pornography in On Our Backs On Our Backs, a lesbian-feminist pornography magazine first published in 1984, features explicit lesbian sadomasochistic sex despite initial publication in a feminist politic critical of pornography and sadomasochism. The creators of On Our Backs expressed frustration with anti-porn discourse in the feminist movement and desired… Continue reading 36.2 | Sam Forrey
36.2 | Müge Özoğlu
Writing non-Turkish Subjectivities, Writing Contradictions: Twentieth-Century Istanbul in Istanbul Ansiklopedisi İstanbul Ansiklopedisi is an absorbing project undertaken by the renowned historian Reşad Ekrem Koçu and published between 1944and 1973. The encyclopaedia features a diverse range of entriesabout the history of buildings, fountains, customs, and individuals who either lived in or visited the city. It provides… Continue reading 36.2 | Müge Özoğlu