Abstract

I engage Black feminist thought in this genre-blending text to further theorize Black feminist memory work, a visual research tool for embodied reflexivity. Using my lived experience surviving bereavement, I demonstrate how Black feminist thought—as anchored to the concepts of creation, improvisation, and memory—shaped the aforementioned self-invented method for humanely undertaking the task of heeding the embodied intensities of grief-borne sorrow and suffering. Sorrow and suffering can be exacerbated by systemic marginalization in dehumanizing settings such as the output-obsessed neoliberal academy. Black feminist memory work extends a long lineage of Black women subversively creating alternatives that defy the body-numbing demands of the death and decay-inducing knowledge production normalized in academia. Alternatives to those repressive and oppressive demands offer qualitative researchers apparatus with which to creatively re-member—that is, to return to the body—in order to increase the heart’s capaciousness and capacity for compassion. As qualitative researchers, embodied (re)connection to the essentially compassionate core of our human/e selves is imperative for resisting, recovering from, and surviving the deadening trap/pings of neoliberal academia.

摘要

我在这个混合体裁的文本中加入了黑人女权主义思想，以进一步理论化黑人女权主义记忆工作，具身反身性的视觉研究工具。利用我在丧亲之痛中幸存的生活经验，我展示了黑人女权主义思想如何——以创造、即兴创作和记忆的概念为基础——塑造了上述自我发明的方法，以人道地承担关注悲伤和悲伤的具体强度的任务。痛苦。在非人性化的环境中，系统性边缘化可能会加剧悲伤和痛苦，例如痴迷于产出的新自由主义学院。黑人女权主义记忆工作扩展了黑人女性的悠久血统，颠覆性地创造了替代品，这些替代品无视学术界规范化的死亡和诱导腐烂的知识生产的身体麻木需求。这些压制性和压迫性要求的替代方案为定性研究人员提供了创造性的工具再-member，也就是说，返回到身体，以增加心脏的capaciousness和能力的同情。作为定性研究人员，与我们人类/e 自我本质上富有同情心的核心的具身（重新）连接对于抵抗、从新自由主义学术界的令人窒息的陷阱/陷阱中恢复过来并幸存下来是必不可少的。