{"id":2011,"date":"2016-08-01T11:57:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T19:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/?p=2011"},"modified":"2017-01-14T00:14:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-14T08:14:40","slug":"crochet-coral-reef-in-e-flux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/news\/crochet-coral-reef-in-e-flux\/","title":{"rendered":"Crochet Coral Reef in e-flux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-flux.com\/journal\/queer-universal\/\">article<\/a>\u00a0in <em>e-flux<\/em> magazine Rebekah Sheldon\u00a0discusses the <em>Crochet Coral Reef<\/em> project as an exemplar of the recent interest among feminist and queer studies scholars in moving away from universal theorizations towards acknowledgement of the epistemic power of the particular. Entitled &#8220;Queer Universal,&#8221; Sheldon&#8217;s piece hails the virtues of attending to such &#8220;particular forms of life&#8221; as &#8220;lightning, atoms, jellyfish \u2026 extinct aurochs, wooly coral reefs &#8230; and transgender frogs.&#8221; The IFF is delighted to be in such company. Sheldon&#8217;s article also draws on a recent essay about the\u00a0<em>Crochet Coral Reef\u00a0<\/em>by trans-studies theorist Jeanne Vaccaro &#8220;Feelings and Fractals: Wooly Ecologies of Transgender Matter&#8221; published in the journal <em>GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-flux.com\/journal\/queer-universal\/\"><strong>Queer Universal<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/a><strong>e-flux:<\/strong> Journal #75, 05\/2016<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the author:<\/strong> Rebekah Sheldon, an assistant professor at Indiana University Bloomington, is a scholar of feminist philosophy, queer theory, the new realisms, and contemporary American literature, culture, and popular rhetoric.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an\u00a0article\u00a0in e-flux magazine Rebekah Sheldon\u00a0discusses the Crochet Coral Reef project as an exemplar of the recent interest among feminist and queer studies scholars in moving away from universal theorizations towards acknowledgement of the epistemic power of the particular. Entitled &#8220;Queer Universal,&#8221; Sheldon&#8217;s piece hails the virtues of attending to such &#8220;particular forms of life&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2011"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2151,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011\/revisions\/2151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}