Article
Feminist Review (1996) 54, 3–30. doi:10.1057/fr.1996.31
Queer Black Feminism: The Pleasure Principle
Laura Alexandra Harris teaches in the Women's Studies Department at California State University San Marcos. Currently, Harris is the recipient of a UC President's Dissertation Year Fellowship that will give her an opportunity to finish writing her dissertation this coming year. Her project is entitled, 'Women writing resistance: bodies, class, and race in the Harlem Renaissance'. Her e-mail address is: lharris@ucsd.edu.
Laura Alexandra Harris
Abstract
In this critical personal narrative Harris explores some of the gaps between conceptions of feminist thought and feminist practice. Harris focuses on an analysis of race, class, and desire divisions within feminist sexual politics. She suggests a queer black feminist theory and practice that calls into question naturalized identities and communities, and therefore what feminism and feminist practices might entail.
Keywords:
queer, black, feminism, fem, pop-feminism
