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Queer Ancient Ways advocates a profound unlearning of colonial/modern categories as a pathway to the discovery of new forms and theories of queerness in the most ancient of sources (thereby also unlearning queer theory as it has been understood in contemporary, primarily Anglo-American and western European contexts). In this radically unconventional work, Zairong Xiang investigates scholarly receptions of mythological figures in Babylonian and Nahua creation myths, exposing the ways they have consistently been gendered as feminine in a manner that is not supported, and in some cases actively discouraged, by the texts themselves. An exercise in decolonial learning-to-learn from non-Western and non-modern cosmologies, Xiang’s work uncovers a rich queer imaginary that has been all-but-lost to modern thought, in the process critically revealing the operations of modern/colonial systems of gender/sexuality and knowledge-formation that have functioned, from the Conquista de America in the sixteenth century to the present, to keep these systems in obscurity.
At the heart of Xiang’s argument is an account of the way the unfounded feminization of figures such as the Babylonian (co)creatrix Tiamat, and the Nahua creator-figures Tlaltecuhtli and Coatlicue, is complicit with their monstrification. This complicity tells us less about the mythologies themselves than about the dualistic system of gender and sexuality within which they have been studied, underpinned by a consistent tendency in modern/colonial thought to insist on unbridgeable categorical differences.
By contextualizing these deities in their respective mythological, linguistic, and cultural environments, through a unique combination of methodologies and critical traditions in English, Spanish, French, Chinese, and Nahuatl, Xiang departs from the over-reliance of much contemporary queer theory on European (post)modern thought. Much more than a queering of the non-Western and non-modern, Queer Ancient Ways thus constitutes a decolonial and transdisciplinary engagement with ancient cosmologies and ways of thought which are in the process themselves revealed as theoretical sources of and for the queer imagination.
Struggle as Culture: The Museum of Solidarity, 1971–73
María Berríos
Essay
II: La Solidaridad va Más Allá de un Concepto. ...
Lisette Lagnado, Agustín Pérez Rubio
Conversation
Fragments of the Artist’s Diary, Berlin 11.2019–1.2020
Virginia de Medeiros
Diary
Grupo Experimental de Cine en acción
Gabriel Peluffo
Drawing
Glossary of Common Knowledge
L’Internationale Online
Glossary
#fight4rojava
Graffiti
Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism
Dani Karavan
Memorial
IV: How Fear Can Dismantle a Body. Vis-a-Vis with ...
María Berríos, Lisette Lagnado
Conversation
Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende (MSSA) in Berlin
Conversation
II: La Solidaridad va Más Allá de un Concepto. Entre las Curadoras de la XI Berlin Biennale
Lisette Lagnado, Agustín Pérez Rubio
Conversation
„Klaus Eckschen: Hörspiel“
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Hörspiel
Flávio de Carvalho: Fazenda Capuava
Archive of Lisette Lagnado
Photographs
THE MOBILIZATION
Nicolás Cuello
Text
Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism
Dani Karavan
Memorial
Solidarity and Storytelling. Rumors against Enclosure
María Berríos
Essay
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Queer Ancient Ways advocates a profound unlearning of colonial/modern categories as a pathway to the discovery of new forms and theories of queerness in the most ancient of sources (thereby also unlearning queer theory as it has been understood in contemporary, primarily Anglo-American and western European contexts). In this radically unconventional work, Zairong Xiang investigates scholarly receptions of mythological figures in Babylonian and Nahua creation myths, exposing the ways they have consistently been gendered as feminine in a manner that is not supported, and in some cases actively discouraged, by the texts themselves. An exercise in decolonial learning-to-learn from non-Western and non-modern cosmologies, Xiang’s work uncovers a rich queer imaginary that has been all-but-lost to modern thought, in the process critically revealing the operations of modern/colonial systems of gender/sexuality and knowledge-formation that have functioned, from the Conquista de America in the sixteenth century to the present, to keep these systems in obscurity.
At the heart of Xiang’s argument is an account of the way the unfounded feminization of figures such as the Babylonian (co)creatrix Tiamat, and the Nahua creator-figures Tlaltecuhtli and Coatlicue, is complicit with their monstrification. This complicity tells us less about the mythologies themselves than about the dualistic system of gender and sexuality within which they have been studied, underpinned by a consistent tendency in modern/colonial thought to insist on unbridgeable categorical differences.
By contextualizing these deities in their respective mythological, linguistic, and cultural environments, through a unique combination of methodologies and critical traditions in English, Spanish, French, Chinese, and Nahuatl, Xiang departs from the over-reliance of much contemporary queer theory on European (post)modern thought. Much more than a queering of the non-Western and non-modern, Queer Ancient Ways thus constitutes a decolonial and transdisciplinary engagement with ancient cosmologies and ways of thought which are in the process themselves revealed as theoretical sources of and for the queer imagination.
Struggle as Culture: The Museum of Solidarity, 1971–73
María Berríos
Essay
Maternidades subversivas
María Llopis
Monograph
Hatred Among Us
Lisette Lagnado
Essay
#fight4rojava
Graffiti
Umbilical Cord Amulet
McCord Museum
Object
A Moment of True Decolonization / Episode #6: Sinthujan ...
The Funambulist / Sinthujan Varatharajah
Podcast
Fragments of the Artist’s Diary, Berlin 11.2019–1.2020
Virginia de Medeiros
Diary
IV: How Fear Can Dismantle a Body. Vis-a-Vis with ...
María Berríos, Lisette Lagnado
Conversation
Género y colonialidad en busca de claves de lectura ...
Rita Segato
Essay
Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism
Dani Karavan
Memorial
Struggle as Culture: The Museum of Solidarity, 1971–73
María Berríos
Essay
New Look
Flávio de Carvalho
Performance
El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno
Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala
Chronicle
Being in Crisis together – Einander in Krisen begegnen
Feminist Health Care Research Group (Inga Zimprich/Julia Bonn)
Online workshop
O Bailado do Deus Morto
Flávio de Carvalho
Play
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Queer Ancient Ways advocates a profound unlearning of colonial/modern categories as a pathway to the discovery of new forms and theories of queerness in the most ancient of sources (thereby also unlearning queer theory as it has been understood in contemporary, primarily Anglo-American and western European contexts). In this radically unconventional work, Zairong Xiang investigates scholarly receptions of mythological figures in Babylonian and Nahua creation myths, exposing the ways they have consistently been gendered as feminine in a manner that is not supported, and in some cases actively discouraged, by the texts themselves. An exercise in decolonial learning-to-learn from non-Western and non-modern cosmologies, Xiang’s work uncovers a rich queer imaginary that has been all-but-lost to modern thought, in the process critically revealing the operations of modern/colonial systems of gender/sexuality and knowledge-formation that have functioned, from the Conquista de America in the sixteenth century to the present, to keep these systems in obscurity.
At the heart of Xiang’s argument is an account of the way the unfounded feminization of figures such as the Babylonian (co)creatrix Tiamat, and the Nahua creator-figures Tlaltecuhtli and Coatlicue, is complicit with their monstrification. This complicity tells us less about the mythologies themselves than about the dualistic system of gender and sexuality within which they have been studied, underpinned by a consistent tendency in modern/colonial thought to insist on unbridgeable categorical differences.
By contextualizing these deities in their respective mythological, linguistic, and cultural environments, through a unique combination of methodologies and critical traditions in English, Spanish, French, Chinese, and Nahuatl, Xiang departs from the over-reliance of much contemporary queer theory on European (post)modern thought. Much more than a queering of the non-Western and non-modern, Queer Ancient Ways thus constitutes a decolonial and transdisciplinary engagement with ancient cosmologies and ways of thought which are in the process themselves revealed as theoretical sources of and for the queer imagination.
Undocumented Rumours and Disappearing Acts from Chile
María Berríos
Essay
II: La Solidaridad va Más Allá de un Concepto. ...
Lisette Lagnado, Agustín Pérez Rubio
Conversation
Grupo Experimental de Cine en acción
Gabriel Peluffo
Drawing
Solidarity and Storytelling. Rumors against Enclosure
María Berríos
Essay
#fight4rojava
Graffiti
Glossary of Common Knowledge
L’Internationale Online
Glossary
THE MOBILIZATION
Nicolás Cuello
Text
IV: How Fear Can Dismantle a Body. Vis-a-Vis with ...
María Berríos, Lisette Lagnado
Conversation
Teatro da Vertigem
Monograph
Glossary of Common Knowledge
L’Internationale Online
Glossary
#fight4rojava
Graffiti
Fragments of the Artist’s Diary, Berlin 11.2019–1.2020
Virginia de Medeiros
Diary
Struggle as Culture: The Museum of Solidarity, 1971–73
María Berríos
Essay
St Sara Kali George
Delaine Le Bas
Soundscape
Being in Crisis together – Einander in Krisen begegnen
Feminist Health Care Research Group (Inga Zimprich/Julia Bonn)
Online workshop
By using this website you agree to the use of cookies in accordance with our data privacy policy.
Queer Ancient Ways advocates a profound unlearning of colonial/modern categories as a pathway to the discovery of new forms and theories of queerness in the most ancient of sources (thereby also unlearning queer theory as it has been understood in contemporary, primarily Anglo-American and western European contexts). In this radically unconventional work, Zairong Xiang investigates scholarly receptions of mythological figures in Babylonian and Nahua creation myths, exposing the ways they have consistently been gendered as feminine in a manner that is not supported, and in some cases actively discouraged, by the texts themselves. An exercise in decolonial learning-to-learn from non-Western and non-modern cosmologies, Xiang’s work uncovers a rich queer imaginary that has been all-but-lost to modern thought, in the process critically revealing the operations of modern/colonial systems of gender/sexuality and knowledge-formation that have functioned, from the Conquista de America in the sixteenth century to the present, to keep these systems in obscurity.
At the heart of Xiang’s argument is an account of the way the unfounded feminization of figures such as the Babylonian (co)creatrix Tiamat, and the Nahua creator-figures Tlaltecuhtli and Coatlicue, is complicit with their monstrification. This complicity tells us less about the mythologies themselves than about the dualistic system of gender and sexuality within which they have been studied, underpinned by a consistent tendency in modern/colonial thought to insist on unbridgeable categorical differences.
By contextualizing these deities in their respective mythological, linguistic, and cultural environments, through a unique combination of methodologies and critical traditions in English, Spanish, French, Chinese, and Nahuatl, Xiang departs from the over-reliance of much contemporary queer theory on European (post)modern thought. Much more than a queering of the non-Western and non-modern, Queer Ancient Ways thus constitutes a decolonial and transdisciplinary engagement with ancient cosmologies and ways of thought which are in the process themselves revealed as theoretical sources of and for the queer imagination.
#fight4rojava
Graffiti
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Monograph
IV: How Fear Can Dismantle a Body. Vis-a-Vis with ...
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Conversation
Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism
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Fragments of the Artist’s Diary, Berlin 11.2019–1.2020
Virginia de Medeiros
Diary
El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno
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Chronicle
THE MOBILIZATION
Nicolás Cuello
Text
Struggle as Culture: The Museum of Solidarity, 1971–73
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Essay
Hatred Among Us
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Essay
Freiheit für Chile!
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THE MOBILIZATION
Nicolás Cuello
Text
Being in Crisis together – Einander in Krisen begegnen
Feminist Health Care Research Group (Inga Zimprich/Julia Bonn)
Online workshop
Maternidades subversivas
María Llopis
Monograph
El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno
Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala
Chronicle
Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism
Dani Karavan
Memorial
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