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Strange Fruits : Queer of Color Intellectual Labor in the Netherlands in the 1980s and 1990s / Gianmaria Colpani and Wigbertson Julian Isenia.

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resume:	This chapter offers a portrait of postcolonial queer of color formations that emerged in the Netherlands through the 1980s and 1990s, paying specific attention to the nature of their intellectual labor. The independence of Suriname in 1975, the limited opportunities for higher education in the former Dutch Antilles, and unfavorable economic developments on the islands in the 1980s prompted postcolonial mass migrations to the Netherlands through those years. In the former metropolis, confronted by racism, urban segregation, and labor discrimination, postcolonial migrants (both workers and students) soon began to organize. This postcolonial organizing took shape within the broader field of the so-called new social movements, such as feminism and gay and lesbian liberation, hence in the context of a radical reconfiguration of the Left. While in the 1970s these different movements mostly worked alongside one another, in the 1980s they began to overlap more substantially, leading to a proliferation of collectives variously positioned at the intersections of labor, feminist, antiracist, and LGBT struggles. Among these are the black lesbian feminist group Sister Outsider, founded in 1984, and the queer of color collective Strange Fruit, founded in 1989 and active throughout the 1990s. These two groups are the focus of this chapter.
subjects:	research lgbtq+ movement lgbtq+ people in ethnic groups lgbtq+ activists academics feminism gay liberation netherlands surinam 1980 1990 1990 2000

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Archiving queer of colour politics in the Netherlands : A roundtable conversation / Gianmaria Colpani, Wigbertson Julian Isenia, and Naomie Pieter.

Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies, 22 (2019) 2, p. 163-182

source:	Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies year: 22 (2019) 2 , p. 163-182
resume:	This roundtable stages a conversation amongst activists and cultural producers involved in feminist and queer of colour politics in the Netherlands from the 1980s to the present. Its primary focus is on the collectives and initiatives that emerged in the 1980s and 1990s, such as SUHO (Surinamese Homosexuals), Flamboyant, Zami, Sister Outsider, and Strange Fruit. The roundtable participants - Anne Krul, Tieneke Sumter, Andre Reeder, Marlon Reina, and Ajamu - reflect on several issues, amongst which the political organising around blackness in the 1980s and 1990s, the relations between queer of colour collectives and other movements, the links between political organising and cultural work, the differences between activism and archiving in Curaçao and the Netherlands, and, finally, the possibilities and limits of archiving queer of colour histories in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The roundtable also discusses two exhibitions held at IHLIA LGBT Heritage in Amsterdam: We Live Here (2009), on the history of the black lesbian and gay community in the Netherlands, and With Pride (2018), on the history of Dutch sexual politics.
subjects:	lgbtq+ activists feminism lgbtq+ people in ethnic groups lgbtq+ movement politics netherlands curaçao 1980 1990 1990 2000 2000 2010 2010 2020

signature:	ts. dgb artikelen (colpa/ise/arc)

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Looking for kambrada : Sexuality and social anxieties in the Dutch colonial archive / Wigbertson Julian Isenia.

Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies, 22 (2019) 2, p. 125-143

source:	Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies year: 22 (2019) 2 , p. 125-143
resume:	How can we embrace the appeal to use Caribbean terms for same-sex erotic relationships when we work with archives - such as the colonial archive - whose subjects are spoken about and do not speak back (at least not in a way that is understandable or recognisable to us)? This article deals with the term kambrada in Papiamentu in the context of Curaçao. The term can be translated as zami in Caribbean English Creole and mati in Suriname's Sranan Tongo. The Caribbean terms zami and mati, like kambrada, can refer to a (non-sexual) female or male companion as well as to female same-sex erotic relationships. I trace the appearance of kambrada in the Dutch colonial archive by looking at the first three (known) sources that mention female same-sex relationships in the Dutch Caribbean in general, and kambrada relationships in particular. These are the anthropological study Curaçao en Zijne Bewoners (Curaçao and Its Habitants, 1882) by Antoine T. Brusse, the travelogue Naar de Antillen en Venezuela (To the Antilles and Venezuela, 1904) by Henri van Kol, and the novel E No Por Casa (She Cannot Marry, 1923) by Willem Kroon. I do not approach these texts as sources for the recovery of the voices of women who engaged in kambrada relationships. Rather, I group them together as part of a 'cultural archive' to show how, as cultural articulations of sexuality, they simultaneously articulate colonial domination, social anxieties, and patriarchy. By deducing the ideological statements of these male authors, I take up Ann Stoler's invitation to read along the grain of the colonial archive.
subjects:	mati friendships lesbians sexual relationships colonialism social norms patriarchy curaçao 1870 1914 1910 1920

signature:	ts. dgb artikelen (iseni/loo)

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LGBTshirtQIA+ : vijftig jaar queergeschiedenis op t-shirts = fifty years of queer history on t-shirts : Strange Fruit / [fotografie: Ari Versluis ; schrijver: Wigbertson Julian Isenia].

Amsterdam: IHLIA LGBTI Heritage, 2020 - 2 fold. sheets: ill.

edition:	Amsterdam : IHLIA LGBTI Heritage, 2020 - 2 fold. sheets: ill.
subjects:	lgbtq+ people clothing lgbtq+ movement subcultures textile art exhibitions netherlands
theme:	mode/uiterlijk biculturelen lhbti
resume:	LGBTshirtQIA+ toont een omvangrijke greep uit de T-shirtcollectie van IHLIA LGBTI Heritage. Vijf topstukken worden uitgelicht - ieder uit verschillende perioden, gebieden en (sub)culturele achtergronden - en voorzien van context in de vorm van interviews, essays, beelden en gedichten. Fotograaf Ari Versluis plaatst deze verhalen in het heden, zo wordt de geschiedenis gedragen door lhbtq+-ers van nu. Alle shirts zeggen iets over en zijn onderdeel van belangrijke momenten uit de lhbtqi+-historie. LGBTshirtQIA+ nodigt uit om met een open blik te kijken naar, te fantaseren over, en in te zoomen op de diverse belangrijke verhalen die alle 327 T-shirts in de IHLIA-collectie met zich meedragen. De foto's, shirts en verdiepende perspectieven zijn een schets van een moment, tijd, beweging, gemeenschap, individu of plek uit de lhbtqi+-geschiedenis. Met deze tentoonstelling pogen we niet om een compleet overzicht van deze geschiedenis te bieden, maar geven we wel een beknopte impressie van vijftig jaar queercultuur in ontwikkeling.

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Magical Terms: On Defining and Positioning the 'Decolonial' and 'Queer' in Archival Practices / Wigbertson Julian Isenia and Eliza Steinbock.

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subjects:	research retrieval systems language trans women queer theory colonialism archivists netherlands
theme:	archieven/bibliotheken/musea transgender
resume:	The publication opens with an exploration of the archived life of Betty Paërl. Through their attempt to reconcile the gap between race, sexuality, colonial history, and the normative politics of archiving, the authors offer a reflection on the use of terminology related to the decolonial during the symposium.

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In the end, we always have to call institutions to account : Interview with Wigbertson Julian Isenia and Naomie Pieter / Looi van Kessel en Fleur van Leeuwen.

Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies, 22 (2019) 3, p. 285-297

source:	Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies year: 22 (2019) 3 , p. 285-297
resume:	This year's pride season marked the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, an event that, while not the beginning of the Gay Rights Movement in the United States, should at least be viewed as one of the first major milestones in the movement's history. In the Netherlands, too, the history of LGBT activism has been commemorated in the recent exhibition 'With Pride', organised by IHLIA LGBT Heritage (see the review by Michiel Odijk in this issue). After its first successful run at the Amsterdam Public Library, the exhibition toured the Netherlands and opened in Utrecht during its annual pride festivities on June. While praised for its thorough documentation of 40 years of Dutch queer resistance, there was also critique. A number of activists and scholars pointed to a lack of inclusivity and representation, which they argued compromised the exhibition's validity. Wigbertson Julian Isenia and Naomie Pieter, founders of Black Queer and Trans Resistance Netherlands (BQTRNL) and Black Queer Archive, represent two of these critical voices and address the structural exclusion of queers of colour in history writing and archival practices in their work. Julian co-edited the previous issue of Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies (vol. 22(2): 'Sexual Politics Between the Netherlands and the Caribbean: Imperial Entanglements and Archival Desire' and, together with Gianmaria Colpani, Julian and Naomie organised the roundtable 'Archiving Queer of Colour Politics in the Netherlands' (Colpani, Isenia, & Pieter, 2019). In response to the IHLIA exhibition, they proposed an exhibition under the title Nos Tei (Papiamentu/o for 'We are here' or 'We exist'), which is to serve as an addition to the original 'With Pride' exhibition and ran independently from 11 July until 4 September. 2019. We were very happy that both agreed to an interview for this thematic issue on 'narratives of LGBT history in the Netherlands' to discuss their views on archival practices and the exclusion of queer of colour perspectives from mainstream exhibition and archival spaces.
subjects:	lgbtq+ archives black lgbtq+ people lgbtq+ people in ethnic groups exhibitions lgbtq+ activists lgbtq+ movement intersectionality netherlands 1970 1980 1980 1990 1990 2000 2000 2010 2010 2020

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Editorial: Imperial entanglements and archival desires / Gianmaria Colpani, Wigbertson Julian Isenia.

Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies, 22 (2019) 2, p. 113-123

source:	Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies year: 22 (2019) 2 , p. 113-123
resume:	What does it mean to look for queerness in colonial, anticolonial, and postcolonial archives? What can these archives tell us about formations of queer desire and sexual politics across times and places? And what can queerness tell us, in turn, about colonial domination, struggles for decolonisation, and the configuration of postcolonial societies? Equally important, what investments come to shape our work when a search for queerness orients our mining of colonial, anticolonial, and postcolonial archives? The essays collected in this special issue offer some answers to these questions by discussing the place of sexual politics in the colonial and postcolonial relations between the Netherlands and the Caribbean. In order to do so, they draw on postcolonial studies, cultural studies, feminist and queer theories, as well as current debates on the archive taking place across these fields.
subjects:	research postcolonialism politics lgbtq+ archives feminism queer theory lgbtq+ people in ethnic groups western cultures netherlands caribbean

signature:	ts. dgb artikelen (colpa/ise)

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Re-imagining sexual citizenship from the Dutch Caribbean / Wigbertson Julian Isenia.

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resume:	This chapter is a theoretical re-imagination of sexual citizenship through an engagement with the cultural practices of the Curaçaoan-born theater-maker Fridi Martina. Traditionally the concept of sexual citizenship outlines the sexual rights and duties of individuals relating to the nation-state, encompassing legal disputes about same-sex marriage, among other things. Throughout this chapter I discuss how Martina's articulation of ideas about sexuality contribute to broader theoretical and collective political efforts to radically re-imagine sexual citizenship; that is, a critique of heteronormativity as well as an intersectional analysis that brings into focus axes of sexuality, class, gender, and race. More importantly, I foreground a re-imagination of sexual citizenship from below, which prioritizes minoritarian perspectives and does so from the perspective of the fragmented sovereignty of the Dutch Caribbean. Currently the Dutch Caribbean consists of the constituent countries Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten, and the special municipalities of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba. The Kingdom of the Netherlands includes the Dutch Caribbean and the European mainland Netherlands. Being a Dutch Caribbean might mean at once being a citizen of one of the special municipalities or constituent countries within the Kingdom (living on one of the Caribbean islands); a citizen of the European mainland Netherlands (born in the Caribbean and living in the Netherlands); a European citizen (having a Dutch European passport by legal membership in the Kingdom); and a Caribbean citizen (identify culturally with one of the islands). This chapter underlines the longstanding, complex, and fragmented sovereignty of the Dutch Caribbean islands, yet sees this political context as a unique entry point to devise social transformations outside the idea of the nation-state and Euro-American centered scholarship.
subjects:	sexual identity directors heteronormativity lgbtq+ civil rights sexuality sexual minorities intersectionality dutch caribbean netherlands

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Queer Sovereignties: Cultural Practices of Sexual Citizenship in the Dutch Caribbean / Wigbertson Julian Isenia.

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resume:	This dissertation examines the reimagination of sexual citizenship by same-sex desiring and trans* subjects in the Dutch Caribbean through cultural practices, focusing primarily on Curaçao. Analysing archival documents, performances, novels, photographs, letters to the editors of newspapers, and erotic lexicons, I propose approaching these subjects' cultural practices through the theoretical lens of what I call 'queer sovereignties'. The concept of queer sovereignties refers to the positions staked out by same-sex desiring and trans* subjects as they reimagine how to achieve collective autonomy within the postcolonial context of the non-independent Caribbean, and emphasises how these positions both disrupt and conform to hegemonic notions of sexuality, gender, and nation.
subjects:	research queer culture queer identity sexual diversity sexual identity queer people of color literature intersectionality colonialism caribbean

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Love and Compassion amid many adversities : On Black, Queer Archival Practices / Wigbertson Julian Isenia.

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subjects:	research black queer people queer archives colonialism archivists emotions netherlands
theme:	archieven/bibliotheken/musea transgender
resume:	I often recall a James Baldwin quote from 1961. Wondering how Black artists in the United States reconcile their social obligations with their artistic responsibilities, Nat Hentoff asked him "To what extent do you find this true in your own writing?" (Baldwin et al. 205). Baldwin replied with the nowfamiliar words, "[T]o be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a state of rage almost all the time" (Baldwin et al. 205). Baldwin speaks about the indifference of most white people of that day, of the realisation that one may not be a match for the institutional violence one encounters and of the anger at one's own inability to deal with white indifference. Perhaps he speaks too of sheer hopelessness.We must read Baldwin's words, which are not as wellknown and are less often quoted. He also says that there is: A great temptation to simplify the issues, under the illusion that if you simplify them enough, people will recognize them. I think this illusion is very dangerous because, in fact, it isn't the way it works. A complex thing can't be made simple. You simply have to try to deal with it in all its complexity and hope to get that complexity across. (Baldwin et al. 205) He suggests that we embrace the full and some times contradictory nature of our emotions. Perhaps our reactions to the hardships we face can express themselves in more than anger, defiance, shame and guilt. I am interested in the relationship between and among these emotions and Black, queer archival practises: our struggles, desires and, as I discuss in this contribution, love and compassion amid - and indeed, despite - countless adversities. Examining this relationship can reveal how we could funnel that rage in order to, in the words of Cornel West, "remain in that boat with the tension, with the hostility, because there was also love, care, loyalty and solidarity" (in hooks and West 129). This love, bell hooks reminds us, goes beyond the romantic interpretation of the term by understanding it as a mutual fulfilment of needs and "the giving and receiving [of] critical feedback" (hooks and West 129). I refer to the translation process necessary to transform one's experiences for a wider audience as a practice of love and compassion, and how this process, as proposed by Baldwin, can equip our practice with valuable tools.

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