Prophetic Pasts, Presents, and Futures
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چکیده
In this creative nonfiction essay, I take account of my transcendental memories from childhood and track its effects on past, present, future selves. engage personal experiences using Black feminist theory to make visible the weightiness intangible inheritances that continue affect present life. Despite trying relinquish inheritance, bear burden mark an insistent past adamant determining a constrained future. The work theorists queer thinkers walked so could run; throughout essay locate where when their appeared loosened reigns religious, gendered, other oppressive discourses.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The social, political, ethical, and cultural theory archives
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2162-8793']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21061/spectra.v9i1.205