Elementor #42985
Overview Introduction I remembered back to my coming-out days in San Antonio, Texas, in the early 1960s and realized that I had lived long enough and been out long enough to be historic.— Carolyn Weathers In October of 2015, I met with Carolyn Weathers in her condo in Long Beach, California. I had spent the […]
Elementor #42203
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Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot’s Water Graves
Overview Water Graves investigates how contemporary writers and artists of the greater Caribbean (such as Jason deCaires Taylor) reinvest sites of racialized violence and environmental degradation—as so many manifestations of “unritual”—with a new sense of the sacred that allows for remembrance and re-humanization. Rituals—be they initiations, funerary rites, or collective acts of remembrance—confer “humanity” […]