Nikki Giovanni, “Ego-tripping (there may be a reason why)” in The Women and the Men (Harper Perennial, 1979).
“Mass protests in Poland against tightening of abortion law,” The Guardian, March 23, 2018 →
Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks (Pluto Press, 1967 (reprint)), 229.
Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, “Policy and Planning,” in Social Text (Fall 2009): 185.
See Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Penguin Books, 1977 (reprint)).
Verónica Gago, “Witchtales: An Interview with Silvia Federici,” Viewpoint Magazine, April 15, 2015 →
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Sutapa Chattopadhyay, “Caliban and the Witch and wider bodily geographies,” Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, 24 (2017) 160–73.
Foucault, Discipline and Punish, 137.
Angela King, “The Prisoner of Gender: Foucault and the Disciplining of the Female Body,” Journal of International Women’s Studies, vol. 5. no. 2 (March 2004): 30.
Ethan H. Shagan, The Rule of Moderation: Violence, Religion and the Politics of Restraint in Early Modern England (Cambridge University Press, 2011), 65.
Shagan, The Rule of Moderation, 65.
Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (Little, Brown, 1924).
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Hélène Cixous, “The Laugh of the Medusa,” in New French Feminisms, ed. Elaine Marks and Isabella de Courtivroin (Universtiy of Massachusetts Press, 1980), 252.
Cixous, “The Laugh of the Medusa,” 252.
Luce Irigaray, This Sex Which is Not One (Cornell University Press, 1985), 163.
Jacqueline A. Bussie, The Laughter of the Oppressed. Ethical and Theological Resistance in Wiesel, Morrison, and Endo. T & T Clark, 2007, 167.
Bussie, The Laughter of the Oppressed, 169.
“Revolutionary Hope: A Conversation Between James Baldwin and Audre Lorde,” originally published in Essence Magazine, 1984. See: →
“Sri Lanka Reimposes Ban on Women Buying Alcohol Days after it was Lifted,” The Guardian, January 14, 2018 →
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I’m also referring here to Ovul Durmusoglu’s presentation “Who Will Love Us to The End of Time?” as part of the Speaking Feminisms series curated by Elena Agudio, Federica Bueti, and Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro at SAVVY Contemporary, November 15, 2016 →
Safiya Sinclair, “How To Be A More Interesting Woman: A Political Guide For the Poetess” in Cannibal (University of Nebraska Press, 2016).
Audre Lorde, “Uses of the Erotic as Power” in Sister Outsider (The Crossing Press, 1984).
Lorde, Sister Outsider, 341.
Rustom Bharucha, Chandralekha: woman, dance, resistance (Indus, 1995).
Ananya Chatterjea, Butting Out: Reading Resistive Choreographies Through Works by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and Chandralekha (Wesleyan University Press, 2004).
Malini Nair, “The rediscovery of Chandralekha, the dancer who didn’t want a legacy,” Scroll.in, December 30, 2016 →
Tishani Doshi, “Remembering Changralekha on her 11th death anniversary,” The Hindu, December 30, 2017 →
Tishani Doshi, e-mail conversation with the author on May 17, 2018.
Hélène Cixous, “The Laugh of the Medusa,” in Signs, vol. 1, no. 4 (Summer, 1976): 875–93.
Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study (Minor Compositions, 2003).
Paula Erizanu and Lewis Gordon, “A Black Existentialist Response to Kanye West,” iai news, May 8, 2018 →
Haroon Moghul, “It’s Ludicrous that Tony Blair and the West Still Refuse to Apologize for the Iraq Debacle,” →
Alex Ward, “Chelsea Manning on why she leaked classified intel: ‘I have a responsibility to the public,’” Vox, June 9, 2017 →
bell hooks, “Choosing The Margin As a Space of Radical Openness,” Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media, 36 (1989):15–23.
Denise Ferreira da Silva, “Hacking the Subject: Black Feminism and Refusal beyond the limits of Critique,” philoSOPHIA vol. 8, no. 1 (Winter 2018): 19–41.
Pierre Chaillan, “Thinking in Alliance: an Interview with Judith Butler,” Verso Blog, April 2, 2018 →
Lorde, Sister Outsider.
Eternal thanks to my defiant sisters, to Jan Ramesh de Saram for wild laughter, and Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung for bringing me poetry.