Abstrakt
My paper "'Who Are We Now?' Transnational Feminist Crossings, Rasanblaj, and Rememberings" analyzes the evolution and legacy of transnational feminism from and with Alexander's remembering in Pedagogies to and with Haitian rasanblaj, or the practice of gathering and assembling (as proposed by anthropologist Gina Ulysse) with a focus on the spiritual dimension, and the "we/them" as mode of addressing our presents/futures, and staying with the pandemic. In particular, through a contrapuntal and fugitive reading of The Whale Fall (2021), a video piece by African-American performer Mayfield Brooks, I tried to foreground the incredible resistance coming from the Crossing (the Middle Passage) and the Ocean with its ancestors and "them," undrowned creatures, who can teach us the touch of love out of death, carcasses and ruins.