Articles - July 2013

'Invictus' and the negotiated revolution

Or Clint Eastwood's idea of the lyric poem

William Ernest Henley, author of "Invictus."

Queering racialized bodies

Disidentity in the works of Akilah Oliver and Ronaldo Wilson

Isaac Julien. Photo by Sammlung Goetz.

After some time browsing through pages, staring out the window, and drifting over question after question, the idea of the borderlands became something I latched on to despite these unfamiliar cultural experiences and references. It occurred as I repeated the phrase: a vague and undetermined place created by the emotional residue of an unnatural border.

I find myself going back into the past. In absence.

 What haven’t I looked at thus far? What remains

 (mostly) unquestioned in examining what queer

 representations are? Race. Ethnicity. My white skin.

 I must dig deeper.