Abstract “Gathering” is a Black queer vernacular term that refers to discursive and embodied performances of community, resistance, insult and offense, and self-defense. Through engagement with the trans of color liberation rhetorics of Indya Moore and Qween Jean, “gatherings” are revealed as embodied and relational rhetorical acts that collect, bring together, or otherwise provide for queers of color across difference. We argue that gatherings serve as a rhetoric of provision, which indexes a rhetor's discursive maneuvers to provide marginalized communities—in this instance, queer and trans communities—with care and resources to counter systemic and institutional violence at multiple intersections.
Abstract This essay attends to recent policy changes at universities nationwide and their impact.
Abstract This article examines how the second Trump administration uses executive orders, lawsuits, and public address to attack the norms of government while attempting to contract who counts as the people (dēmos). We argue that queering public address stands as a necessary direct action against this lethal antidemocratic agenda. Further, we posit that clandestine communication–a queer form of public address that moves via stealth and fugitive transmissions–is a vital resource for providing care and mutual aid and for resisting a government keen to displace and erase its ever-expanding list of enemies.
