The Weaver’s Handshake
by: Amy E. Elkins , December 13, 2021
by: Amy E. Elkins , December 13, 2021
The Weaver’s Handshake explores the intimacy of text and textiles—how the embodied gestures of craftwork convey queer connection and feminist resistance. Both an archival film-essay and a process-oriented community project, it’s an erotic assemblage of theoretical quilting points that subvert—and call attention to—the emotional archives of distance.
REFERENCES
Ahmed, Sara (2017), Living a Feminist Life, Durham: Duke University Press.
Bora, Renu (1997), ‘Outing Texture’, in Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (ed.), Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction, Durham: Duke University Press, pp. 94-127.
Dormor, Catherine (2018), ‘Caressing Cloth: The Warp and Weft as Site of Exchange’, in Lesley Millar and Alice Kettle (eds), The Erotic Cloth: Seduction and Fetishism in Textiles, London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 123-31.
Howe, Susan (2014), Spontaneous Particulars: The Telepathy of Archives. New York: New Directions.
Lorde, Audre (2007). ‘Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power’, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, Berkeley: Crossing Press, pp. 53-9.
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky (2011), ‘Making Things, Practicing Emptiness’, in Jonathan Goldberg (ed.), The Weather in Proust, Durham: Duke University Press, pp. 69–122.
Smith, Zadie (2019), ‘Parents’ Morning Epiphany’, in Grand Union: Stories, New York: Penguin, pp. 61-6.
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