human rights – ethnomedialogue

Episode 3: Queering Subjectivities

Welcome to our third episode! This episode’s main focus continues the conversation of media narrative analysis from episode 2, focusing on the internal negotiation of subjectivity and the process of reading and engaging with subjects. Primarily I confront narrative simplifications. Narrative simplifications of subjects are the mediated frameworks that can enforce hegemonic, linear, and binary presumptions of existence as subjective points of reference. Queering subjectivities dismantles these presumptions.

Also today, I highlight a band from Seattle, NAVVI, who released an EP and album this past August, and I briefly introduce #QueerCinemaForPalestine, the group spearheading the boycott of this year’s TLVFest.

Sources and recommended readings

Transcript

Today’s retrospect: “#QueerCinemaForPalestine”

Queer Cinema for Palestine

“10 Queer Arab films to watch during pride month”

“The Palestinian Exception to Free Speech”

Today’s Highlight: “NAVVI from Seattle”

NAVVI on bandcamp

NAVVI on Soundcloud

NAVVI on Twitter

Today’s main focus: “Queering Subjectivities”

Randall Amster. 2012. Anarchism Today

Walter Benjamin. 1936. “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.”

Jonathan Ned Katz. 1997. “The Invention of Heterosexuality.”

Eli Manning. 2009. “A Queer Disruption to Methodology.”

Philip K. Dick. 1978. “How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart in Two Days.”

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Episode 2: Chronotopes and Media

Our second episode’s main focus centers around media analysis, particularly the type of analysis that facilitates a more diverse approach toward understanding and framing media subjects within various narratives. To that end, I explore the concept of the “chronotope,” offering some origins, definitions, and uses of the term, qualifying its use in media narratives and offering a contrasting comparison with the concept of the “archetype,” which is somewhat more popularized in global literature and media conversations. This analytical deep dive gets to the heart of how I approach media study.

Along the way, I highlight a band from Belfast, Northern Ireland, Strange New Places, who released an EP this past October, and I briefly discuss #WetsuwetenStrong, recent settler colonial mistreatment of Indigenous rights and sovereignty, and misrepresentation of Indigenous people and current politics as visible in media.

Sources and recommended readings

Transcript

Today’s retrospect: “#WetsuwetenStrong and Indigenous Sovereignty”

Real Peoples Media and #TyendinagaStrong: https://bit.ly/32Ayv5V

Red Braid Alliance for Decolonialism and Socialism: https://twitter.com/stopdisplacemnt/status/1230935862256340993

The Intercept, Article on Recent Wet’suwet’en resistance: https://theintercept.com/2020/02/23/wetsuweten-protest-coastal-gaslink-pipeline/

Indigenous Youth in Support of Wetsuweten Hereditary Chiefs: https://globalnews.ca/news/6580747/indigenous-youth-occupy-melanie-marks-office/

Today’s Highlight: “Music and Human Rights in Northern Ireland: Strange New Places.”

Strange New Places on bandcamp: https://strangenewplaces.bandcamp.com/track/this-city-2

A recent Guardian article about music and human rights in Northern Ireland: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/sep/27/basic-human-rights-are-being-rejected-northern-irelands-anti-dup-protest-music

Today’s main focus: “Chronotopes in Media, Chronotopes, Archetypes, and Frames”

Bakhtin’s Theory of the Literary Chronotope: http://library.umac.mo/ebooks/b28005533.pdf

“Intersectionality and Chronotopes”: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09687599.2020.1719041?scroll=top&needAccess=true

Kimberle Crenshaw, “What is Intersectionality”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViDtnfQ9FHc

Kimberle Crenshaw, “Intersectionality is not Identity”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPtz8TiATJY Russel Brand on Hot Ones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHTR-XF6MXU