6/20/2023 0 Comments Turning on a Dime by Maggie Dana![]() She preserves pieces of the past and present but changes them as she constellates and annotates them with a speculative eye toward the future. I also argue that Los Angeles Public Library’s Central Library became a semi-utopian alternative space for Butler that was proximate but other, a kind of portal through which to time travel by doing research and a key site of what Fred Moten and Stefano Harney refer to as “black study (105).” Through her archiving, Butler imagines and performs a kind of reproduction with a difference. ![]() In this essay for a special issue of Women’s Studies co-edited by Moya Bailey and Ayana Jamieson, I argue that Butler’s massive archive at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California helps us see her significant contributions as a radical Black feminist theorist, historiographer, and researcher across fields and disciplines. ![]() Shelley Streeby (2018): Radical Reproduction: Octavia E. ![]()
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