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Speaking Face to Face
SUNY SERIES, PRAXIS: THEORY IN ACTION
Nancy A. Naples, editor
Speaking
Face to Face
The Visionary Philosophy of María Lugones
Edited by Pedro J. DiPietro, Jennifer McWeeny, and Shireen Roshanravan
Cover image: “Hunger.” © e nina jay.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: DiPietro, Pedro J., 1974- editor. | McWeeny, Jennifer, editor. | Roshanravan, Shireen, editor.
Title: Speaking face to face : the visionary philosophy of María Lugones / edited by Pedro J. DiPietro, Jennifer McWeeny, and Shireen Roshanravan.
Description: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2019] | Series: SUNY series, praxis: theory in action | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018033268| ISBN 9781438474533 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781438474540 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Lugones, Maria, 1944- | Feminist theory.
Classification: LCC HQ1190 .S676 2019 | DDC 305.42—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018033268
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To all those who commit to living and loving large against the expectations of a world that relies on our living and loving small. And, of course, to María Lugones, for inspiring us to see, feel, speak, think, cook, sing, dance, create, and enact impossible worlds of verifiable love into existence.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction Like an Earthquake to the Soul: Experiencing the Visionary Philosophy of María Lugones
Pedro J. DiPietro, Jennifer McWeeny, and Shireen Roshanravan
PART I COALITIONAL SELVES, MULTIPLE REALITIES
1 Trash Talks Back
Elizabeth V. Spelman
2 A Focus on the “I” in the “I → We”: Considering the Lived Experience of Self-in-Coalition in Active Subjectivity
Kelli Zaytoun
3 The Ripple Imagery as a Decolonial Self: Exploring Multiplicity in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée
(Brena) Yu-Chen Tai
PART II MOVING WITH AND BEYOND INTERSECTIONALITY
4 Beyond the “Logic of Purity”: “Post-Post-Intersectional” Glimpses in Decolonial Feminism
Anna Carastathis
5 Witnessing Faithfully and the Intimate Politics of Queer South Asian Praxis
Shireen Roshanravan
PART III GENDER, COLONIALITY, AND DECOLONIAL EMBODIMENTS
6 Border Thinking/Being/Perception: Toward a “Deep Coalition” across the Atlantic
Madina Tlostanova
7 Motion Sickness and the Slipperiness of Irish Racialization
Jennifer McWeeny
8 Toward a Decolonial Ethics
Manuel Chávez Jr.
PART IV KNOWING ON THE EDGE OF WORLDS AND SENSE
9 Beyond Benevolent Violence: Trans* of Color, Ornamental Multiculturalism, and the Decolonization of Affect
Pedro J. DiPietro
10 Travel to Death-Worlds
Joshua M. Price
PART V HABLANDO CARA A CARA
11 Deep Coalition and Popular Education Praxis
Cricket Keating
12 Walking Illegitimately: A Cachapera/Tortillera and a Dyke
Sarah Lucia Hoagland
13 Carnal Disruptions: Mariana Ortega Interviews María Lugones
Afterword
Paula M. L. Moya
Chronological List of María Lugones’s Publications
Contributors
Index
Illustrations Figure 6.1 Delinking by Taus Makhacheva, 2011. Figure 7.1 Frontispiece from Ireland from One or Two Neglected Points of View , 1899. Figure 7.2 “The Ignorant Vote: Honors are Easy” by Thomas Nast, 1876. Figure 7.3 “Florence Nightingale and Bridget McBruiser” from New Physiognomy , 1866. Figure 7.4 “The Irish Declaration of Independence” by Frederick B. Opper, 1883.
Acknowledgments
The kind of thinking that Lugones’s praxis calls for necessarily arises out of interpersonal engagements that are in turn situated within and among a variety of communities. This book would not have been possible without the dynamic interactions that we shared with each other and with the diversity of groups and individuals that have sustained us during the time it took to bring this project to fruition.
We acknowledge the College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University, the College of Arts and Sciences at Kansas State University, and the College of Arts and Sciences at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, for their generous support of our research and the production of this book. We are also grateful to the National Women’s Studies Association for sponsoring two panels relevant to this collection at its annual meetings. This gave the editors and authors opportunities to receive valuable feedback. These events include a roundtable discussion on the book in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 2015 and a panel on Lugones’s praxical philosophy in Denver, Colorado, in 2010.
We are grateful to two communities for playing an important role in cultivating practice and scholarship on Lugones’s work and aiding significantly in our respective developments, albeit in different ways. First, thank you to the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture (CPIC) at Binghamton University, and especially its members associated with the Politics of Women of Color Workshop and the Decolonial Thinking Workshop who have inspired many crucial conversations. Among them are Wanda Alarcón, Mazi Allen, Manuel Chávez Jr., Maria Chaves-Daza, Cindy Cruz, Josh Franco, Nelima Gaonkar, Colette Jung, Nikolay Karkov, Jen-Feng Kuo, Hilary Malatino, Xhercis Mendez, Chantal Rodais, Gabriel Soldatenko, Ovidiu Tichindeleanu, Tushabe, and Gabriela Veronelli. Second, the Latina Feminism Roundtable organized by Mariana Ortega at John Carroll University fostered several explorations of Lugones’s work. Members, participants, and keynote speakers include Linda Martín Alcoff, Mariana Alessandri, Natalie Cisneros, Veronica Isabel Dahlberg, Brittan Davis, Theresa Delgadillo, Pedro DiPietro, Carmen Lugo-Lugo, Jacqueline Martinez, Jennifer McWeeny, Cynthia Paccacerqua, Laura Elisa Pérez, Andrea Pitts, Monique Roelofs, Stephanie Rivera Berruz, Alexander Stehn, Gloria Vaquera, Sujay Vega, Ernesto Rosen Velasquez, Elena Ruíz, Chela Sandoval, Ofelia Schutte, Daphne Taylor Garcia, and Kelli Zaytoun.
We express our sincere thanks to the artists who have granted us permission to reproduce their work on the book’s cover and in chapter 6 , respectively: e. nina jay and Taus Makhacheva. The General Research Division of the New York Public Library generously helped to locate the frontispiece reprinted in chapter 7 . We are also appreciative of the careful work of the editorial team at the State University of New York press, including Rebecca Colesworthy, Beth Bouloukos, Jenn Bennett-Genthner, and Michael Campchiaro. Thank you to John Wentworth for copy editing the manuscript with such keen attention, to Kirk Warren for the cover design, to Aimee Harrison for typesetting the manuscript, and to David Martinez for compiling the book’s index. Additionally, we are grateful to Nancy A. Naples for including this work in the Praxis: Theory in Action series.
Finally, this book was realized through the hard work, expertise, and care of each of its contributors. We are deeply grateful for their patience, perseverance, and insight through what was a long and demanding editing process. Together, these contributors are crafting and authorizing a field of research that emerges out of a deep engagement with Lugones’s ideas, and they are thus bringing her visionary philosophy to more and more circles of people practicing resistance against multiple oppressions. We are grateful to Paula M. L. Moya for writing an afterword that emphasizes the playfulness and complexity of walking with Lugones’s thinking. The advice and guidance of M. Jacqui Alexander was crucial for enriching the introduction and its potential for making connections across generations of antiracist feminist movements and across multiple sites of transnational and translocal solidarities.
Pedro : Echoes of many voices resonate in mine. They accompany me on a journey of self-transformation and collective transformation. They have brought me to this page, literally. Among these companions and their voices, I would like to especially acknowledge those I have known since the very beginning of life or whom I encountered in my childhood and have remained with me in a shared affective map: Yamile Dip, Hugo DiPietro, Tía Nené, Cecilia Sanchez DiPietro, Cristian DiPietro, Pachi Sanchez, Agustina Checa, Santiago Checa, Lidia Patagua, and Claudia Mendieta; my beloved companion Brian and the adorable nonhuman animals, Bisel and Inti, who have enriched our life together; those whose friendship or mentorship I cherish and whose presence sustains me in many ways—Laura Elisa Pérez, Joshua Price, Himika Bhattacharya, John Strohmeier, Gabriela Veronelli, Gloria Bonder, Eunjung Kim, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Linda Carty, Ariel Monterrubianesi, Suronda Gonzalez, Joe Galante, Peter Fazo, and Maya Strohmeier;