interview with Wigbertson Julian Isenia and Naomie Pieter
- Categories
- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Tijdschrift voor genderstudies
- Magazine Year
- 2019
- Magazine Number
- 3
- Creator
- Kessel, Looi van
- Creator
- Leeuwen, Fleur van
- Thesaurus
- sociale verhoudingen, lesbische en homostudies, lesbische en homobewegingen, etniciteit, archieven, tentoonstellingen, LHBT, Nederland, 21e eeuw
- Description
- Interview article featuring Wigbertson Julian Isenia and Naomie Pieter, founders of Black Queer and Trans Resistance Netherlands (BQTRNL) and Black Queer Archive. They discuss their views on archival practices and the exclusion of queer of colour perspectives from mainstream exhibition and archival spaces. The study of Isenia, PHD candidate at the University of Amsterdam, focuses on concepts of gendered and sexual citizenship in cultural practices such as archival collections and literature. Performance artist Pieter examines black female body, afro-spirituality and activism through her artwork.