Acknowledgments
The author thanks Dr. Joan Faber McAlister for her helpful comments and support and Dr. Toniesha Taylor and Dr. Nina Lozano Reich for their support and intellectual solidarity.
Notes
Ahmed defines the nonperformative as “the ‘reiterative and citational practice by which discourse’ does not produce” (Butler, qtd. in Ahmed 117).
I purposely use the terminology queer white women and women of color of various sexual identifications so that I do not render anyone invisible through my own discourse.
For a discussion of the Zimmerman jury, see Dana Ford (“Juror”; “George Zimmerman”). When Abigail Fisher was denied admittance to the University of Texas in 2008 she sued the school because of its affirmative action policy. For further information about the case, see Chris Good; Hillary Crosley.
The Dukes of Hazzard. Warner Brothers, 1979. Videocassette. See also Waylon Jennings.
For further discussion of women who are childfree by choice, see Julia Moore.