Dancing on Desks8 Mars 2024

Sesason 3, Episode 5 | Lineages of Deviant Caretaking

We call this episode, lovingly, the auntie auntie auntie episode (or the niece niece nibling episode) shouted at the top of our lungs. We scream their names in the key of care, of reclaiming our bodies, lives, and pleasure(s) for ourselves (and our time). In this episode we talk with Anna Almore and Erica or ET, two friends and educators, about their moments of what Anna calls deviant caretaking, the act of choosing pleasure, accountability to one’s deepest self over what work as teachers, teacher-educators, and students demands of one’s self. Anna and Erica share about lessons learned one night at a strip club and releasing themselves from the disciplining of settler colonialism’s projects of school, capitalism, misogynoir, and respectability—led by a long inheritance of aunties who showed them how to do thee things. And as nieces and aunties themselves, they reflect on what they now teach another generation, finding that the lessons and blessings their nieces and relatives give them to be the most urgent ones of all. Share your thoughts with us at us@dancingondesks.org, leave an audio message, or slide into our DMs on IG @dancingondesks.

Cover art by Anna Almore

Transcript Finalized May 3

Intellectual Inheritance

- bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress

- Cathy Cohen, “Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics?” GLQ (1997)

- Cathy Cohen, “Deviance As Resistance: A New Research Agenda for the Study of Black Politics” Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race (2004)

- Hoodrat to Headwrap podcast with Ericka Hart and Ebony Donnley, "Resting My Eyes (with a pistol in my apron): Tricia Hersey's Ministry is About More than Naps"

-Audre Lorde, “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power”

-Kimberly C. Ransom, “A Conceptual Falsetto: Re-Imagining Black Childhood via One Girl’s Exploration of Prince” Journal of African American Studies (2017)

- Keffrelyn D. Brown

- Christina Sharpe, Ordinary Notes

Music

- “Godspeed” prod Jovian

- “Warm Brandy” prod kitxnx

- "5AM In Ibiza" prod ossy

- “Stagnant” prod rémdolla

- “Levitate” prod Bailey Daniel

- “Another Day” prod Jovian

- “Marigold” prod by Qué Soul

- “Island Girl” prod by JayRewind/@RMLUR

- “Wham” prod by Slappy Boy

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