Anabel Khoo
Anabel Khoo is a Master of Arts graduate in Communication and Culture at York University in Toronto, Canada.
Her scholarship focuses on cultural production and mediation at the intersections of queerness, gender, racialization, class, ability, embodiment and decoloniality.
Informed by her experience as a media producer, activist and trainer in community media and social justice organizing, her thesis research considers media production and performance by Two-Spirit, Queer and Trans People of Colour (2-QTPOC) as emergent and complex forms of transformative justice, healing, queer imagination and political potentiality in North America/Turtle Island.
Supervisors: Enakshi Dua, Kenneth Little, Susan Driver, and Bobby Noble
Her scholarship focuses on cultural production and mediation at the intersections of queerness, gender, racialization, class, ability, embodiment and decoloniality.
Informed by her experience as a media producer, activist and trainer in community media and social justice organizing, her thesis research considers media production and performance by Two-Spirit, Queer and Trans People of Colour (2-QTPOC) as emergent and complex forms of transformative justice, healing, queer imagination and political potentiality in North America/Turtle Island.
Supervisors: Enakshi Dua, Kenneth Little, Susan Driver, and Bobby Noble
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This essay examines the qualities of alternative archiving methods through a case study of Mobile Homecoming, an inter-generational project aiming to collect underrepresented histories of queer black elders involved in community and social justice organizing in the United States.
Drawing upon cultural theories on affect, sexuality and race, the essay explores the ways in which the archiving methods of Mobile Homecoming negotiate and subvert sites of meaning-making such as the ‘archive’, the ‘home’, and academic institutions.
In particular, I attempt to understand the realm between the discursive and the corporeal, paying attention to contexts where intellectual analysis meets or complicates the material realities of queers of color and vice versa. For instance, how can archiving and storytelling as an affective process renegotiate or reaffirm the archive as a transformative force for social change? What contradictions and tensions come up within politically progressive or queer cultural theory? How do such practices transcend Euro-American understandings of truth, authenticity or political clout?
By examining self-reflexive narrative and practices such as “queering the archive”, “family-making”, “emotionality” and political praxis, I suggest that such alternative archiving methods can act as strategies for cultural survival, healing and strengthening social justice movements.
This essay examines the qualities of alternative archiving methods through a case study of Mobile Homecoming, an inter-generational project aiming to collect underrepresented histories of queer black elders involved in community and social justice organizing in the United States.
Drawing upon cultural theories on affect, sexuality and race, the essay explores the ways in which the archiving methods of Mobile Homecoming negotiate and subvert sites of meaning-making such as the ‘archive’, the ‘home’, and academic institutions.
In particular, I attempt to understand the realm between the discursive and the corporeal, paying attention to contexts where intellectual analysis meets or complicates the material realities of queers of color and vice versa. For instance, how can archiving and storytelling as an affective process renegotiate or reaffirm the archive as a transformative force for social change? What contradictions and tensions come up within politically progressive or queer cultural theory? How do such practices transcend Euro-American understandings of truth, authenticity or political clout?
By examining self-reflexive narrative and practices such as “queering the archive”, “family-making”, “emotionality” and political praxis, I suggest that such alternative archiving methods can act as strategies for cultural survival, healing and strengthening social justice movements.