Gukira

• 12, 000 Words?

  Posted: February 28, 2012, 12:52 pm by keguro

  There is much wrong with anonymous peer review. As Brian Rathburn points out, anonymous reviewers need not be “bitchy,” to use his term. They also need not take as long as they do, to add my own complaint. I understand folks are busy–but if you’re too busy to turn something around quickly, don’t take it [...]

• Sagging Time

  Posted: February 24, 2012, 6:19 pm by keguro

  As “fashion week” is splashed all over, I started thinking about styles that seem to resist the “time” of fashion, the habit of trendiness, the pull of now. About extended time, stretched time, persistent time. The time of sagging. Less abstractly, I was waiting for the bus and started thinking about the longevity of sagging: [...]

• It Gets Harder: On Teaching

  Posted: February 22, 2012, 3:05 pm by keguro

  This post can go wrong in many ways. It is not about sex. This post can go wrong in many other ways. It really is not about sex. Stop reading right now if you think it’s about sex. Really. Stop. Since I’ve used the word sex so many times, search engines will probably direct those [...]

• “I Watched the Late Show”

  Posted: February 22, 2012, 4:42 am by keguro

  I watched the late show, An Officer and a Gentleman, which is a movie about factory workers not having a dream except to put out when they are shat on until a man dressed in white carries one of them away. Then everyone claps they are so happy. Forrest Gander, “Distractions from the Real World”

• How to Remove Trousers when Fettered

  Posted: February 22, 2012, 2:28 am by keguro

  The secret is one leg at a time. Lower the trousers and push one trouser-leg down inside the shackle, between it and the leg, until you have stuffed through as much as will go, including some of the crutch. Then pull the shackle as high up the leg as it will go and remove your [...]

• “We Have Chosen To Be Gay”

  Posted: February 17, 2012, 8:59 pm by keguro

  An anonymous African gay man says, We have chosen to be gay, that is what we want, and that is what we like. That is what we have chosen and we want to display it. What does it mean to “choose to be gay”? What does it mean for an African man to “choose to [...]

• The Whitney Soundtrack

  Posted: February 13, 2012, 3:44 pm by keguro

  I grew up listening to Whitney Houston. Not simply in the sense that she was famous as I entered adolescence, but that the affect-world she created saturated and colored my sense of what it meant to live in the world. Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” was fun, Prince was nice to like, New Edition appealing, but Whitney’s [...]

• Love in Fanon

  Posted: February 10, 2012, 4:34 am by keguro

  My (lightly edited) comments at GWU today. I’m not sure where this particular avenue is headed, but it helped me clarify some thinking about race and the academy and the role of the minority professor. * Today we believe in the possibility of love, and that is the reason why we are endeavoring to trace [...]

• Teaching on Lynching

  Posted: February 7, 2012, 4:24 pm by keguro

  While the scholarship on lynching has proliferated over the past 10 or so years, the memory of lynching seems more elusive than ever. Lynching has lost its force, so much so that lynching has become a common metaphor for having a bad day. Curiously, not since the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have images [...]

• Coming Up

  Posted: February 4, 2012, 1:54 am by keguro

  On Thursday. I’ll post a draft of my paper as soon as I have something that feels substantive. I’ll be talking about love in Black Skin, White Masks, and also touching on Wretched of the Earth. Here’s the abstract: Love in Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks Today I believe in the possibility of love; [...]

• School is in Session

  Posted: February 4, 2012, 3:17 am by keguro

  If the six hours I’ve spent reading and evaluating undergrad and grad work are any indication, school is back in session. Looking forward to a further 10 hours of this joy over the weekend. (And that seminar paper to write for a presentation on Thursday.)

• Glee’s Michael Jackson

  Posted: February 2, 2012, 9:13 pm by keguro

  Worst. Episode. Ever!

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