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12017-06-21T16:50:12-07:00micha cárdenas42dd48ce3b8953275b525403960f3891f0fb44f3195844plain2021-11-15T23:57:39-08:00micha cárdenas42dd48ce3b8953275b525403960f3891f0fb44f3In a poetic mode, I have described both Kara Keeling’s black femme function and Janelle Monae’s ability to dance between identities through code poetry in my performance of “Femme Disturbance” at the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics31. The code poems follow.
femmeDisturbance.keeling.blackFemmeFunction () { delete visibility; if( commonSense.disrupt(racist) && commonSense.disrupt(sexist) && commonSense.disrupt(heteronormative) ) { //once these forms of commonsense have been disrupted //exit this entire computational paradigm and //split off into a new imaginary computational system //yet to be defined fork(blackFemme(revolutionary, anticapitalist)); } }