Author Archives: bodiesdontmatterhere

Two quotes I find most important and descriptive of Juana Maria Rodriguez’s claims about parental function, recognition, identification, and ownership through the lens of queer politics are: “The queer imperative becomes how to talk about parenting, and the circuits of … Continue reading →

So, I like to plop definitions down into my posts, and this week is no different.  I find doing so especially appropriate since we spent some time in class yesterday defining common terms like empire and economy, discovering the definitions were … Continue reading →

I would like to begin with an exhaustive list of the definitions of “existence” acquired from the Oxford English Dictionary: 1) “state of being existent”  2a) “being; the fact or state of existing”  2b) “continued being; continuance in being”  2c) … Continue reading →

Jasbir Puar states, “[i]n this insurial economy, intimacy is rearticulated beyond the domain of the private or elicited through negotiated public-private interplay” (129).  Futhermore, she states “[s]pecific to a Deleuzian model of control societies is an emphasis on affective resonance, … Continue reading →

Greetings “Queer Mobilities, Queer Citizenship”, This is Kristi Rines, alias: “bodiesdontmatterhere”.  This name is from my favorite piece assigned in Dr. Hannabach’s Intro to Feminist Theory, “Queer Cyborgs New Mutants: Race, Sexuality, and Prosthetic Sociality in Digital Space” by Mimi … Continue reading →