{"id":11519,"date":"2024-07-09T14:38:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T14:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/?p=11519"},"modified":"2025-04-09T17:29:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T17:29:48","slug":"gendered-solidarity-and-the-shifting-ground-of-the-black-feminine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/gendered-solidarity-and-the-shifting-ground-of-the-black-feminine\/","title":{"rendered":"Gendered Solidarity and the Shifting Ground of the Black Feminine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Catherine A. John, Department of Africana Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Watch a recording of John&#8217;s talk on our <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/xuaSE0IsE-A?si=1Sw8vjHBVlbuyejZ\">Youtube Channel<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Catherine John argues that, in a series of ironies, negative stereotypes of Black female gender identity have laid the foundation for something new: a gender identity that defies containment. This talk situates the \u201cattitude\u201d associated with excessive Black femininity within the contexts of the work of Jamaican scholar Sylvia Wynter, African American scholar Hortense Spillers and Afro-Brazilian scholar Denise Ferreira da Silva. Ferreira da Silva\u2019s notion that Black women \u201cneither comply [with] nor disappear [from]\u201d the hegemonic order will be used to explore the shifting ground between invisibility and a disruptive power that can be deployed for either creative or destructive purposes. Among other things, this presentation will ponder what gendered solidarity looks like with these rebellious new subjects.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1655\/LilKimCover1999.docx_-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11522\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>John&#8217;s talk, which was presented recently at the Modern Language Association conference in January \u201924, is in part also explored in an article forthcoming in fall 2024 in <em>Frontiers: A Journal of Women\u2019s Studies<\/em>, entitled, \u201cInsurgent Attitude and the Shifting Ground of the Black Feminine.\u201d This piece has also been influenced arguments made in the chapter, \u201c\u00ccY\u00c1 but not Woman: A Grassroots Formulation of the <em>Afrospora<\/em> Feminine,\u201d from John&#8217;s forthcoming manuscript <em>Afroindigenization: Marasa Consciousness in the Afrospora<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Catherine A. John, Africana Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4099,"featured_media":11520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[289,284],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2425-past","category-bb-2024-past"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4099"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11519"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11783,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11519\/revisions\/11783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}