https://www.elenagambino.com/home daily 1.0 2021-02-12 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ef76a3ecab2a91ce4dfff1b/t/5ef7733ed960e626a1c3c03d/1593300250407/Headshot Home https://www.elenagambino.com/research daily 0.75 2021-12-07 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ef76a3ecab2a91ce4dfff1b/t/5ef7b05bfe2e3739fdac3cf7/1593290851726/Screen+Shot+2020-06-27+at+4.46.31+PM.png Elena Gambino - My current research addresses the intersections of feminist, queer, and critical race theories, focusing in particular on how lesbian feminists during the 1970s and 1980s developed a coalitional conception of intersectionality by imagining radical futures premised on racial and sexual accountability. In my book project, tentatively titled Politics as Sinister Wisdom: Lesbian Feminism Beyond 'The Waves,’ I link the tendentious historical relationship between “lesbian” and “queer” politics with these paradigmatic questions about coalition-building by recovering the project of lesbian feminism. First, I argue that the historical relationship between lesbian politics of the 1970s and 80s, on the one hand, and the emergence of queer theory in the 1990s, on the other, is often told as a progressive account, wherein we move from a lesbian politics of identity as sameness, to a radically democratic queer politics. However, in so doing, many feminist and queer theorists have allowed the deeply political and relational understanding of identity that predominated during the 1980s to recede from view. Second, I argue that this narrative has mischaracterized lesbian politics as essentialist, thereby foreclosing the lessons of accountability that lesbian politics could teach us. And finally, I offer a reconstructed account of the central claims of a diverse group of lesbian feminists during the 1970s and 80s, arguing that for much of its history, lesbians have promoted a uniquely reparative political praxis – a praxis for which queer theory is almost exclusively credited today. I use a relatively forgotten lesbian political archive, the literary and political magazine Sinister Wisdom, to argue that lesbians – and particularly lesbians of color – have left us with incredibly rich resources through which to think about building mutually accountable coalitions from within relations of inequality.    Image: Cover Art, Sinister Wisdom Issue 1, 1976. Art by Marianne Lieberman. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ef76a3ecab2a91ce4dfff1b/t/5ef7b4069f8c8b0df02ee1ef/1593291795562/IMG_1212.JPG Elena Gambino https://www.elenagambino.com/teaching daily 0.75 2021-02-12 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ef76a3ecab2a91ce4dfff1b/t/5ef7c1a840b8240f645f8d9b/1593295276084/20140301_Trade-151_0124-copy.jpg Teaching https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ef76a3ecab2a91ce4dfff1b/t/5ef7bb763895911144b87679/1593293691521/frontispiece-for-emile-by-jean-jacques-rousseau-1762-engraving_u-l-pgadjz0.jpg Teaching https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ef76a3ecab2a91ce4dfff1b/t/5ef7be4cb7918e0088f06499/1593294418291/6963695829_b33ed9e0cc_b.jpg Teaching https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ef76a3ecab2a91ce4dfff1b/t/5ef7d2d17097fa7586732fdb/1613148331941/Audre-Lorde-129594565x-56aa267d3df78cf772ac8c23.jpg Teaching https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ef76a3ecab2a91ce4dfff1b/t/6026b330f89d9363547ebafa/1613149002857/Screen+Shot+2021-02-12+at+11.41.08+AM.png Teaching https://www.elenagambino.com/contact daily 0.75 2020-06-27 https://www.elenagambino.com/worksinprogress daily 0.75 2021-12-07 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ef76a3ecab2a91ce4dfff1b/t/60c8b9b335c2c773546e692e/1638890415350/Untitled.png Works in Progress https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ef76a3ecab2a91ce4dfff1b/t/60c8b7db388d153297452132/1638890415345/1_tKvcPeOoEERMlavZ7UCjJw.jpeg Works in Progress