From there, he pivots to institutional spaces-specifically prisons and hospitals-and the ways such places seek to expose queer bodies in order to control them.

He first focuses on how the state seeks to inhibit the movement of black queer bodies through public spaces, whether on the street or across borders. GerShun Avilez analyzes the work of diasporic artists who, denied government protections, have used art to create spaces for justice. Attending to and challenging threats has become a defining element in queer black artists’ work throughout the black diaspora. Whether engaged in same-sex desire or gender nonconformity, black queer individuals live with being perceived as a threat while simultaneously being subjected to the threat of physical, psychological, and socioeconomic injury. Authors read these “texts” with scrutiny and imagination, adding distinction to their chapters’ arguments about circulation by zeroing in on specific rhetorical concepts that span from rhetorical agency, cultivation of ethos, and development of rhetorical education to capacities for social networking, collective and collaborative authorship, and kairotic interventions. To generate their claims, contributors draw from and make use of a breadth of archival and primary documents: music videos, tweets, petitions, letters, embroidery work, speeches, memoirs, diaries, and made-for-television movies. Among the central characters studied in this collection are early modern laborers, letter writers, petitioners, and embroiderers African American elocutionists, freedom singers, and bloggers Muslim religious leaders Quaker suffragists South African filmmakers nineteenth-century conduct book writers and twenty-first-century pop stars. The scholars in FEMINIST CIRCULATIONS: RHETORICAL EXPLORATIONS ACROSS SPACE AND TIME work at the nexus of gender, power, and movement to explore the rhetorical nature of circulation, especially considering how women from varying backgrounds and their rhetorics have moved and have been constrained across both space and time. Center for Literary and Comparative Studies.

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