Clemson University TigerPrints All Theses Theses May 2021 On Moving Beyond and Looking Behind: An Analysis of Contemporary Queer of Color Digital Art and Performance Caroline Kinderthain Clemson University,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_theses Recommended Citation Kinderthain, Caroline, "On Moving Beyond and Looking Behind: An Analysis of Contemporary Queer of Color Digital Art and Performance" (2021). All Theses. 3493. https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_theses/3493 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses at TigerPrints. It has been accepted for inclusion in All Theses by an authorized administrator of TigerPrints. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. ON MOVING BEYOND AND LOOKING BEHIND: AN ANALYSIS OF CONTEMPORARY QUEER OF COLOR DIGITAL ART AND PERFORMANCE A Thesis Presented to the Graduate School of Clemson University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts English by Caroline Ann Kinderthain May 2021 Accepted by: Dr. Walt Hunter, Committee Chair Dr. Matthew Hooley Dr. Maziyar Faridi ABSTRACT Queer theory has long limited its revolutionary potential by prioritizing white gay cis men in the fight for political and social change. Theorists like Roderick Ferguson, José Esteban Muñoz, Gloria Anzaldua, Audre Lorde, and Jasbir Puar, to name a few, have expanded the foundations of queer theory to account for queer people of color and the potential for queer futurity. The innovative work on queer utopia that is set up in Muñoz’s Cruising Utopia is the foundation for the performance and art analyses that shape this project.