Revista Periódicus launches call for papers for 2023 dossiers
To circulate in alliance: methodologies of collaboration and movements between worlds.
Moving between worlds is not a totalizing phenomenon. We circulate with and within inequalities, clashes and violences. How do alliances highlight and find openings to amplify the articulation of resistances and ways of collaborating with dignity? This question is the starting point of this call.
Monocultures devour the pluriverse – the world where many worlds fit, as the Zapatista movement names it – and generate processes of alienation from the land that affect us all, but not in an equivalent way. Devastation generates contacts, forced migrations, and the need to create networks to articulate the struggles over land and water – understanding land and water as living for different worlds, peoples, cosmologies, ways of life and modes of production. We want to make this number a space for sharing knowledge about the possibilities and challenges of collaboration taking into account different positionalities within a land-destroying system that hierarchizes bodies, territories and epistemologies.
How do bodies and collectives move and connect by land and social networks, via clouds (by plane) and the cloud (by submarine cables)? How do songs, dances, and other expressive practices and forms of collectivity give meaning to connections and practices of care?
We are specially interested in methodological reflections between territories, struggles and thinking-feelings that consider ecology and the formation of alliances in an anti-racist and feminist way. We are also interested in narratives that exceed the separation between theoretical elaborations and the processes from which they are born.
We welcome contributions on methodologies of circulation; partial alliances between art, activism, social movements and academic research; counter-narratives, counter-archives and counter-cartographies; contesting socio-environmental narratives and critiques of monoculture; articulations between hetero-cis-normativities and monocultures; trans existences and pluriverses; extractivism and the decolonization of imaginaries; processes of collaboration and their limits; traps and interruptions for partnerships within academic and institutional spaces.
Accepting texts until Feb. 1st, 2023.
Non binarity: an emerging idendity in contemporary Brazil
The issue of non binary trans identities has been the subject of increasing visibility and interest in contemporary Brazil, but also target of attacks in different fields. The decision to ban the use of neutral language by the state of Rondônia, a way to refer to non binary people in the Portuguese language, ended up taking the matter to STF Minister Edson Fachin, who decided to cancel the ban in November 2021. In a scenario of emergence of non-binary identities in the cultural and political field, it is essential that we circulate the theoretical-critical reflections that adress the questionings and subjective inter-gender productions, which shakes the binary organizational modes of thought and our way of seeing the world. The proposal of the present dossier, therefore, is a call for theoretical texts, translations, interviews, poems, manifestos, texts of cultural criticism, which thematize the issue of non binaries as transidentities.
Accepting texts until Jun. 1st, 2023.
Adriana Azevedo - Professore substitute do departamento de Teoria Literária da UFRJ e doutora em Literatura, Cultura e Contemporaneidade pela PUC-Rio
Andrey Chagas - Doutorando em Comunicação e Cultura na UFRJ
Walla Capelobo - Mestra em Estudos Contemporâneos das Artes no PPGCA (IACS/UFF)
References
ANZALDUA, Gloria. A vulva é uma ferida aberta & outros ensaios. Rio de Janeiro: Bolha Editora, 2021.
BORNSTEIN, Kate. Gender outlaw – On men, women and the rest of us. Nova York: Vintage, 2016.
BUTLER, Judith. Problemas de gênero – feminismo e subversão da identidade. Rio de Janeiro: Civilização Brasileira, 2008.
HALBERSTAM, Jack. Masculinidad Femenina. Madrid: Editora Egales, 2012.
NASCIMENTO, Letícia. Transfeminismo. São Paulo: Editora Jandaíra, 2020.
QUEBRADA, Linn da. Fissura. Série Pandemia. São Paulo: N-1 Edições, 2021.
RAJUNOV, Micah. Nonbinary: memoirs of gender and identity. Nova York: Columbia University Press, 2019.
VAID-MENON, Alok. Beyond the gender binary. Nova York: Penguin Workshop, 2020.
VERGUEIRO, Viviane. Sou travestis: estudando a cisgeneridade como uma possibilidade decolonial. Distrito Federal: Padê Editorial, 2018.
