Caudal, a Gathering of Abundance

This special issue of CENTRO Journal focuses on contemporary feminist and queer/cuir perspectives of cultural, social, and political phenomena from the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico and their global diasporas. Considering that joyful flows can coexist with dangerous undercurrents, this special...

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Published in:Centro journal 2024-06, Vol.36 (2), p.6
Main Authors: Velazquez, Celiany Rivera, Decena, Carlos Ulises
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:This special issue of CENTRO Journal focuses on contemporary feminist and queer/cuir perspectives of cultural, social, and political phenomena from the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico and their global diasporas. Considering that joyful flows can coexist with dangerous undercurrents, this special issue interconnects feminist and queer Puerto Rican and Dominican contributions in all their subversive and excessive exuberance. The writers of this issue break out of nationalistic myopia to highlight the deep regional and transnational connections between Puerto Ricans and Dominicans. The insularity of the Dominican Republic (in a territory shared with Haiti) and Puerto Rico's neocolonial relationship with the United States create complex, and often troubling, intimacies, particularly when we factor in the ongoing movement of populations from and to the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and around the globe. In examining Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic through a rasanblaj methodology, this issue refuses to pick from here nor there, and instead brings together feminist and queer approaches to spotlight the connectedness of our practices of joy, resistance, and survival in the face of racist, patriarchal, capitalist, misogynist, homophobic and transphobic Caribbean politics and maneuvers in the 21st century. [Key words: feminism, LGBTQIA+, Queer sonic archives, Caribbean Kiki, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico] Caudal : de mucha agua || que tiene el primer lugar en importancia || cantidad que mana o corre || hacienda, bienes de cualquier especie, y m s com nmente dinero || abundancia de cosas que no sean dinero o hacienda. (DLE 2023) Caudal : A lot of water || that has the first place in importance || an amount that emanates or runs through || land, goods of any kind, but commonly refers to money || abundance of things that are not money or land.
ISSN:1538-6279