Graduate Colloquium Series: Landon Sadler (ENGL) – 3/9/2021
"Introducing What’s Queer about Care"
Meeting ID: 935 6380 3394
Password: Sadler
“Introducing What’s Queer about Care”
Zoom Meeting information:
Meeting ID: 935 6380 3394
Password: Sadler
https://tamu.zoom.us/j/93563803394?pwd=OEo2YW1pNVprajRBdnlmNzN3dHQ1QT09
Landon Sadler
Ph.D. candidate| Department of English, 2020-2021 Glasscock Graduate Research Fellow
Abstract:For this presentation, Sadler offers an abridged version of the introduction to his dissertation, “Time Will Tell: Dystopian Cultural Production and Queer Ethics of Care.” He contextualizes and outlines his argument that, in the past decade in the United States, LGBTQ dystopian cultural production has forwarded a radical queer ethics of care as part of a larger cultural politics of softness. Analyzing novels, plays, television shows, and music videos, Sadler finds visions of queer utopia in dystopian cultural production along with thematic embraces of futurity, interdependency, and solidarity. His introduction makes clear the intellectual stakes of his project. Combining feminist ethics of care with affect theory and queer of color critique, he rethinks concepts of dystopia, queerness, and relationality. Doing so allows Sadler to offer a new definition of care that is predicated on alternative kinships and interconnectivity in contrast to existing heteronormative models of care that stress ability, hierarchy, and power.
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