Feminist and Queer World-Making

Sep 30

Welcome to a new season of Swerve South! In this episode, Jaime and Theresa discuss the Isom Center theme for the 2021-2022 year, Feminist and Queer World-Making.

This conversation looks at both Theresa’s experience in ready-made queer spaces in Atlanta in the late 80s and early 90s and Jaime’s experience in the early 90s with queer world-building in the suburban town of Provo, Utah, while attending graduate school at Brigham Young University.

Find out about the DIY ethos that Theresa found alluring in those spaces and how those punk and queer and alternative ideas impacted the programming, like Sarahfest, that the Isom Center offers. And learn how Jaime and fellow graduate students created their own queer world-building with an event called Feminist Home Evening, a play on the Mormon tradition of Family Home Evening, where Mormon families, led by the father, gather every Monday evening to learn more about the Mormon faith in a Sunday-school style gathering, as a response to BYU’s refusal to allow the English department to offer a feminist theory course.

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Jaime Harker and Cecilia Konchar Farr with friends at Pride

Jaime Harker and Cecelia Konchar Farr posing with The Oprah Affect — Jaime Harker and Cecelia Konchar Farr posing with *The Oprah Affect*

Newspaper clipping from 1992 BYU “Take Back the Night” March

Video on Jose Munoz’ Disidentifications

Cover of Harker and Farr’s The Oprah Affect — Cover of Harker and Farr’s *The Oprah Affect*

Cover of Harker and Farr’s This Book Is an Action: Feminist Print Culture and Activist Aesthetics — Cover of Harker and Farr’s *This Book Is an Action: Feminist Print Culture and Activist Aesthetics*

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Feminist and Queer World-Making

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