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REVUE D’ÉTUDES INTERCULTURELLES DE L’IMAGE GUEST EDITORS KIM TALLBEAR ANGELA WILLEY JOURNAL OF CROSS-CULTURAL IMAGE STUDIES CONTRIBUTORS REBECCA ANWEILER EMILY COON NICOLE LAND ISSUE 10-1 SOPHIE DUNCAN MARÍA REGINA FIRMINO-CASTILLO DANIEL FERNANDO GUARCAX GONZÁLEZ CRITICAL RELATIONALIT CRITICAL GRUPO SOTZ’IL TOHIL FIDEL BRITO BERNAL ALEXANDRA HALKIAS JENNIFER A. HAMILTON ERIN MCELROY NAVEEN MINAI Y LINDSAY NIXON CLEO WOELFLE-ERSKINE KIMBERLEY GREESON JAY FIELDS RICK W. A. SMITH IRENE WOLFSTONE REVUE D’ÉTUDES INTERCULTURELLES DE L’IMAGE JOURNAL OF CROSS-CULTURAL IMAGE STUDIES CRITICAL RELATIONALITY: INDIGENOUS AND QUEER BELONGING BEYOND SETTLER SEX & NATURE ISSUE 10-1, 2019 GUEST EDITORS KIM TALLBEAR ANGELA WILLEY CONTRIBUTORS REBECCA ANWEILER EMILY COON NICOLE LAND SOPHIE DUNCAN MARÍA REGINA FIRMINO-CASTILLO DANIEL FERNANDO GUARCAX GONZÁLEZ GRUPO SOTZ’IL TOHIL FIDEL BRITO BERNAL ALEXANDRA HALKIAS JENNIFER A. HAMILTON ERIN MCELROY NAVEEN MINAI LINDSAY NIXON CLEO WOELFLE-ERSKINE KIMBERLEY GREESON JAY FIELDS RICK W. A. SMITH IRENE WOLFSTONE REVUE D’ÉTUDES INTERCULTURELLES DE L’IMAGE JOURNAL OF CROSS-CULTURAL IMAGE STUDIES CRITICAL RELATIONALITY: INDIGENOUS AND QUEER BELONGING BEYOND SETTLER SEX & NATURE ISSUE 10-1, 2019 CRITICAL RELATIONALITY: INDIGENOUS ISSUE 10-1, 2019 AND QUEER BELONGING BEYOND SETTLER SEX & NATURE Guest Editors – Kim TallBear and Angela Willey Editor in Chief | Rédacteur en chef Markus Reisenleitner Managing Editor | Rédacteur Brent Ryan Bellamy Editorial Team | Comité de rédaction Brent Ryan Bellamy, Dominique Laurent, Andriko Lozowy, Tara Milbrandt, Carrie Smith-Prei, and Sheena Wilson Elicitations Reviews Editor | Comptes rendus critiques – Élicitations Tara Milbrandt Web Editor | Mise en forme web Brent Ryan Bellamy French Translator & Copy Editor | Traductions françaises Dominique Laurent English Substantive & Copy Editor | Rédacteur Shama Rangwala Copy Editor | Révisions Shama Rangwala Founding Editors | Fondateurs William Anselmi, Daniel Laforest, Carrie Smith-Prei, Sheena Wilson Previous Team Members | Anciens membres de l’équipe Marine Gheno, Dennis Kilfoy, Daniel Laforest, Lars Richter, Katherine Rollans, Angela Sacher, Dalbir Sehmby, Justin Sully Editorial Advisory Board | Comité scientifique Hester Baer, University of Maryland College Park, United States Mieke Bal, University of Amsterdam & Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Netherlands Andrew Burke, University of Winnipeg, Canada Ollivier Dyens, Concordia University, Canada Michèle Garneau, Université de Montréal, Canada Wlad Godzich, University of California Santa Cruz, United States Kosta Gouliamos, European University, Cyprus Faye Hammill, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom Anton Kaes, University of California Berkeley, United States Dominic McIver Lopes, University of British Columbia, Canada Sarah McGaughey, Dickinson College, United States Peter McIsaac, University of Michigan, United States Marie-Dominique Popelard, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris, France Christine Ramsay, University of Regina, Canada Laurence A. Rickels, Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe, Germany Will Straw, McGill Univeristy, Canada Imre Szeman, University of Alberta, Canada HTTP://DX.DOI.ORG/10.17742/IMAGE.CR.10.1 This research was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Sommaire/Contents Introduction: Critical Relationality: Queer, Indigenous, and Multispecies Belonging Beyond Settler Sex & Nature • 5 Kim TallBear and Angela Willey Sexual/Nature • 17 Rebecca Anweiler iMessaging Flesh, Friendship, and Futurities • 29 Emily Coon and Nicole Land The (Un)Natural Archive • 61 Sophie Duncan Ruximik Qak’u’x: Relacionalidades Ineludibles en el Arte Escenico De Grupo Sotz’il / Inescapable Relationalities in Grupo Sotz’il’s Performance Practice • 101 María Regina Firmino-Castillo, Daniel Fernando Guarcax González, on behalf of Grupo Sotz’il, and Tohil Fidel Brito Bernal Tracking Love in the Wild: from San Diego to Athens, Greece and Beyond • 147 Alexandra Halkias From Bits to Bodies: Perfect Humans, Bioinformatic Visualizations, and Critical Relationality • 181 Jennifer A. Hamilton Digital Nomads and Settler Desires: Racial Fantasies of Silicon Valley Imperialism • 215 Erin McElroy “Who Gave Your Body Back to You?” Literary and Visual Cartographies of Erotic Sovereignty in the Poetry of Qwo-Li Driskill • 251 Naveen Minai Distorted Love: Mapplethorpe, the Neo/Classical Sculptural Black Nude, and Visual Cultures of Transatlantic Enslavement • 295 Lindsay Nixon Fishy Pleasures: Unsettling Fish Hatching and Fish Catching on Pacific Frontiers• 325 Cleo Woelfle-Erskine Pili‘Oha/Kinship: (Re)Imagining Perceptions of Nature and More-Than-Human Relationality • 352 Kimberley Greeson Consume • 383 Jay Fields Monogamy Undone: Review of A. Willey’s Undoing Monogamy: The Politics of Science and the Possibilities of Biology • 385 Rick W. A. Smith Review of Donna Haraway, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene • 389 Irene Wolfstone Contributor Bios • 393 Front Cover Image: Alexandra Halkias, Question Mark in Reverse. CRITICAL RELATIONALITY: QUEER, INDIGENOUS, AND MULTISPECIES BELONGING BEYOND SETTLER SEX & NATURE KIM TALLBEAR AND ANGELA WILLEY his special issue of Imaginations was conceived to document, provoke, theorize, and imagine relations between humans, T and between humans and other-than-humans, that go beyond and trouble normative categories of nature, sex, and love. Such categories manifest, for example, in settler-colonial forms of kin, kind, and relating that are hierarchical, anthropocentric, capitalocen- tric, and hetero- and homonormative. Activists, artists, and scholars have rigorously critiqued family forms legitimated by state-sanc- tioned marriage and naturalized by neo-Darwinian narratives of belonging centered around biological reproduction and which treat land, women, and children as property, yet such forms remain as relational ideals. The so-called natural is always paramount in settler ideas of appropriate ways to relate, control, and allocate rights and resources that reproduce structural inequities. If we are to move beyond the reproduction of the dyadic family’s scripting and privileged status, we need to understand nature differently. We need to rethink sex as the central organizing principle of human sociality, the human as the only important unit of relational ethics, and the white supremacist settler and other colonial cultural scripts as ethical measures of belonging through which the naturalized ideal of the family emerged historically (McClintock 1995, Carter 2008, Carter 2007, Cott 2002, Denial 2013, Morgensen 2011, Franke 2015, TallBear 2018). Our ability to imagine nature and relationality differently are deeply enmeshed, and this imaginative work is vital to the re-worlding before us. CRITICAL RELATIONALITY Another set of generative influences that spur this issue of Imagina- tions are the frameworks of ecosexuality and Indigenous Studies relational frameworks, including Indigenous eco-erotics. Performance artists Beth Stephens’ and Annie Sprinkles’ ecosexual ap- proach—Earth as lover rather than Earth as mother—has a global following (Stephens and Sprinkle 2019, Theobald 2017). Their art and activism—like Audre Lorde’s “erotic”—prompt us to deconstruct the concept of “sexuality.” Ecosexuality is theoretically generative for an Indigenous Studies analysis of sex and relations, precisely because it is not necessary for Indigenous people who have much longer- standing intimate relational frameworks to guide relations with lands and waters. To that end, Turtle Mountain Chippewa scholar Melissa Nelson writes on Indigenous eco-erotics that do not limit the notion of erotic relations to sex. Nelson foregrounds Indigenous stories and frameworks of relationality between humans and nonhumans (Nel- son in Barker, 2017). Finally, the critical analyses of Indigenous Stud- ies scholar and anthropologist, David Delgado Shorter, challenge the objectification by anthropology of both Indigenous sexuality and spirituality. Instead he advocates for Indigenous analytical frameworks and emphasizes the circulation of power in order to disag- gregate these objects into sets of relations between bodies, not all of them human and not all of them living (Shorter 2015 and 2016). The writers and artists featured in this issue explore critical forms of relating that defy the raced, gendered, and genocidal kinship man- dates of settler-colonial structures. In their textual and visual analyses and advocacy of critical theories, knowledges, and forms of relating, these thinkers and creators take inspiration from the potential- ly articulated fields of feminist, queer, and trans theory; Indigenous theory; disability and crip studies; critical race studies; science studies; animal studies; and performance studies. In their play with relations among various analytics, fields, and methodologies, they are often innovating new ways knowing and talking about relationality. Twelve essays plus two book reviews constitute this special issue. Prominent theorists inform the thinking in these pages, but this issue features especially scholars and artists who are working in new, experimental ways to challenge normative ways of relating. Their ISSUE 10-1, 2019 · 6 KIM TALLBEAR AND ANGELA WILLEY archives and visions push understandings of queer, Indigenous, and multispecies belonging in exciting new directions. As non-artist writers and scholars who seek to decolonize and dis- aggregate sexuality

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