What is it about?
This auto-ethnography performance piece focuses on the ways in which oppression attempts to destroy our lives and ruptures our identities. Through 5 flashbacks, this piece explores individual and community level trauma caused by intersecting oppressions and more importantly explores my journey to healing and wholeness.
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Why is it important?
In a increasingly diverse context, it is important to more fully understand the impact of oppression on historically marginalized populations. The most effective way to do it is through their own voices. This piece, which speaks specifically about my lived experience, is an attempt at centering the voice of those historically marginalized specifically at the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, and faith.
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This piece took many years to write. Living at the intersections of multiple minoritized identities literally stole my voice, my capacity to feel, and even almost costed me my life. However, drawing upon critical religious scholarship and performance auto-ethnography, I starting to find my voice again and I am happy to share it with you all in this piece.
Durryle Brooks
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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This page is a summary of: Critical Memories: A Black-Queer-Christian Dilemma (Re)Experienced in Five Flashbacks, Qualitative Inquiry, September 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1077800416667689.
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