De-/Postcolonial Studies

At the dawn of the twentieth century, black women in the US were carving out new ways of living. The first generations born after emancipation, their struggle was to live as if they really were free.These women refused to labour like slaves. Wrestling with the question of freedom, they invented forms of love and solidarity outside ....

Strategien der Grausamkeit sind dort am Werk, wo das Unvorhersehbare des Lebens gezwungen ist, sich Aspekten von Messbarkeit und Konsumierbarkeit, also den Nützlichkeitserwägungen des Kapitalismus, zu unter­werfen. Paradigmatisch hierfür stehen das Patriachat, die Gewalt gegen Frauen und die Ausbeutung ihrer Kör­per. Dieser Grausamkeit ....

"Y'all Means All" is a celebration of the weird and wonderful aspects of a troubled region in all of their manifest glory! This collection is a thought-provoking hoot and a holler of “we’re queer and we’re here to stay, cause we’re every bit a piece of the landscape as the rocks and the trees” echoing through the hills of Appalachia and ....