Abstract
Utilizing performative writing to interrogate the experiences of a queer Xicano male in the discipline of Communication Studies, this essay argues for specificity in dialogue with specificity to disrupt dominant and/or normalized power relations in Queer of Color Critique (QOCC) and beyond. After defining QOCC, the potentiality of jotería critique is offered as a decolonial queer praxis that focuses on hybridity, radical interconnectedness, and nonheteronormative mestiza/o sexual and gender subjectivities. Further, by embracing the ambiguities of hybridity and the politics of radical interconnectedness, Jotería communication studies is a nascent sub-discipline that works in the borderlands between the academic, the artistic, and the activist world, which contributes to and challenges the greater discipline to disrupt the multiple logics of the center in emancipatory, transformative, and embodied forms.
Recommended Citation
Gutierrez-Perez, Robert M.
(2015)
"Disruptive Ambiguities: The Potentiality of Jotería Critique in Communication Studies,"
Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research: Vol. 14, Article 10.
Available at:
https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/kaleidoscope/vol14/iss1/10