In Fractal Repair, Matthew Chin sets out to perform a historical and narrative form of repair in our understanding of Jamaican queer history by adopting the methodology of fractal geometry. Exploring how the social hierarchies and interaction between colonially imposed constructions of race, class, gender, and sexuality have framed queerness as antithetical to Jamaican identity and culture, each chapter explores a variety of texts, oral histories, and organizations that show queer sexualities and intimacies as disruptors of the heteropatriarchal cohesion and coherence of the nation-state.
Keyword: queer studies
Review of Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance by Moya Bailey (New York University Press)
Misogynoir Transformed is a pioneering work by Moya Bailey that offers a groundbreaking analysis of misogynoir and the transformative strategies for social change in contemporary digital society. Through careful analysis of media representations, web series, and social media platforms, Bailey reveals how Black women and Black nonbinary, agender, and gender-variant folks encounter and resist damaging narratives. Bailey also introduces the conceptual framework of digital alchemy to conceptualize the praxis that Black women employ to transform harmful everyday media into valuable social justice media, which functions to reduce the negative effects of misogynoir and create their own safe and inclusive community. This transformative activity highlights the dual effects of visibility—it is empowering but also precarious. Bailey’s work is evidence of how digital platforms have the positive power to reduce misogynoir and reshape the discourse on gender diversity and social justice.