The Weight of Queerness: Reflections on a Digital Storytelling Project

Karleen  Pendleton Jiménez

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Vol. 46 No. 1 (2021): Special Issue: Queer Bodies/Corps Queers

The Weight of Queerness: Reflections on a Digital Storytelling Project

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Submitted: January 30, 2022
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How to Cite

Pendleton Jiménez, K. . (2022). The Weight of Queerness: Reflections on a Digital Storytelling Project. Studies in Canadian Literature, 46(1), 189–208. Retrieved from https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/32741

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[1] Ahmed, Sara. Living a Feminist Life. Duke UP, 2017.

[2] Almassi, Ben. “Feminist Reclamations of Normative Masculinity: On Democratic Manhood, Feminist Masculinity, and Allyship Practices.” Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, vol. 1, no. 2, article 2, 2015. doi:10.5206/fpq/2015.2.2.

[3] Anzaldúa, Gloria. The Gloria Anzaldua Reader. Edited by AnaLouise Keating, Duke UP, 2009.

[4] Bridgeman, Laura, and Krishna Istha. “A Butch Dandy and a Trans Man Get Real about the Intersection of Their Identities.” Refinery 29, 9 Oct. 2019, www.refinery29.com/en-gb/butch-trans-l-with-the-t.

[5] Brushwood Rose, Chloë, and Bronwen Low. “Exploring the ‘Craftedness’ of Multimedia Narratives: From Creation to Interpretation.” Visual Studies, vol. 29, no. 1, 2014, pp. 30-39. Taylor & Francis Online, doi:10.1080/1472586X.2014.862990.

[6] Butler, Judith. Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex.” 1993. Routledge, 2014.

[7] Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. Routledge, 1990.

[8] Cocteau, Jean, director. Beauty and the Beast. DisCina, 1946.

[9] Cocteau, Jean. Beauty and the Beast: Diary of a Film. Dover Publications, 1972.

[10] Coyote, Ivan. “To All of the Kick Ass, Beautiful Fierce Femmes Out There.” YouTube, uploaded by Pancake Heart, 13 Apr. 2010, www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q7IzwUa_kI.

[11] Crowder, Diane Griffin. “Lesbians and the (Re/De)Construction of the Female Body.” Looking Queer: Body Image and Identity in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Communities, edited by Dawn Atkins, Haworth Press, pp. 47-68.

[12] de Rossi, Portia. Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain. 2010. Atria Paperback, 2011.

[13] Descartes, René. Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy. Translated by Donald A. Cress, 4th ed., Hackett Publishing Company, 1998.

[14] Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction. Translated by Robert Hurley, Pantheon Books, 1978.

[15] Froud, Brian, concept artist. The Dark Crystal. Directed by Jim Henson and Frank Oz, Universal Pictures, 1982.

[16] Froud, Brian. Good Faeries / Bad Faeries. Simon and Schuster, 1998.

[17] Froud, Brian, concept designer. Labyrinth. Directed by Jim Henson, TriStar Pictures, 1986.

[18] Halberstam, Judith. Female Masculinity. Duke UP, 1998.

[19] Halberstam, Judith. The Queer Art of Failure. Duke UP, 2011.

[20] Harwood, Valerie. “Theorizing Biopedagogies.” Wright and Harwood, pp. 15-30.

[21] Hemmings, Clare. “Affective Solidarity: Feminist Reflexivity and Political Transformation.” Feminist Theory, vol. 13, no. 2, 2012, pp. 147-61. SAGE Journals, doi:10.1177/1464700112442643.

[22] Kilroy-Ewbank, Lauren. “Templo Mayor at Tenochtitlan, the Coyolxauhqui Stone, and an Olmec Mask.” Khan Academy, n.d., khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/indigenous-americas/a/templo-mayor-at-tenochtitlan-the-coyolxauhqui-stone-and-anolmec-mask.

[23] Knab, T. J., editor. A Scattering of Jades: Stories, Poems, and Prayers of the Aztecs. Translated by Thelma D. Sullivan, U of Arizona P, 1994.

[24] Leon, Melissa. “How AIDS Shaped ‘Beauty and the Beast’: Remembering Disney Song-writing Genius Howard Ashman.” Daily Beast, 3 May 2018, www.thedailybeast.com/how-aids-shaped-beauty-and-the-beast-the-tragedy-of-disney-songwriting-geniushoward-ashman.

[25] Lorde, Audre. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. Crossing Press, 1984.

[26] Pérez, Daniel Enrique. Rethinking Chicana/o and Latina/o Popular Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

[27] Ricci, Christina, performer. The Addams Family. Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, Paramount Pictures, 1991.

[28] Rice, Carla, et al. “Making Spaces: Multimedia Storytelling as Reflexive, Creative Praxis.” Qualitative Research in Psychology, vol. 17, no. 2, 2018, pp. 222-39. Taylor & Francis Online, doi:10.1080/14780887.2018.1442694

[29] Schroeder, Susan. “The Mexico That Spain Encountered.” The Oxford History of Mexico, edited by Michael C. Meyer and William H. Beezley, Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 47-78.

[30] Sexsmith, Sinclair. “Jack Halberstam: Queers Create Better Models of Success.” Lambda Literary, 1 Feb. 2012, www.lambdaliterary.org/2012/02/jack-halberstam-queers-createbetter-models-of-success/.

[31] Thelmadatter. “File:CoyolxauhquiDisk cropped.JPG.” Wikimedia Commons, 14 Apr. 2008, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CoyolxauhquiDisk_cropped.JPG.

[32] Trousdale, Gary, and Kirk Wise, directors. Beauty and the Beast. Walt Disney Pictures, 1991.

[33] Wharton, Edith. The House of Mirth. Paperback Classics, 2009.

[34] Wright, Jan. “Biopower, Biopedagogies and the Obesity Epidemic.” Wright and Harwood, pp. 1-14.

[35] Wright, Jan, and Valerie Harwood, editors. Biopolitics and the “Obesity Epidemic”: Governing Bodies. Routledge, 2009.