Working Around the Incommensurate: Pleasure, Agency, and Brown Jouissance in Kara Walker's “A Subtlety” -- talk by Amber Musser

Date and Time

April 17, 2019
04:00PM - 06:00PM EDT

Location

Basement seminar room, Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138

Walker

The black vulva is mired in a complex representational conundrum. This talk asks how we might begin to think about the black vulva by focusing not only on the intimacies and selfhoods produced by the labial, but on the ways that thinking with race and fleshiness through a discourse on proprioception forces us to attend to power asymmetries. 

Amber Musser
Amber Musser, Associate Professor of American Studies at George Washington University, has published widely on race and critical theory, queer femininities and race, race and sexuality, and queer of color critique. Her second book, Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance (NYU Press, 2018), works against the framing of black and brown bodies as sexualized, objectified, and abject.

 

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