Proposition # 61 Inheriting Minor Cultures

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Notes

1 Miranda, of Jewish Adelaide Feminist Lesbians (JAFL), contributing to Alex Martinis Roe, Coming Home, 2021, 4K video and archival material (courtesy of the JAFL), including photographs, iPhone footage, VHS video and reel-to-reel Helical Scan video tape, transferred to digital video, duration: 1:05:44.

2 On capitalism’s dependency on unpaid reproductive labour, see Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation, 2nd rev. edn (New York: Autonomedia, 2014).

3 Alex Martinis Roe, ‘It Was About Opening the Very Notion that There Was a Particular Perspective’, To Become Two: Propositions for Feminist Collective Practice (Berlin: Archive Books, 2018).

4 Marcia Falk, The Book of Blessings: New Jewish Prayers for Daily Life, the Sabbath, and the New Moon Festival (New York: Harper Collins, 1996).

5 Another of Miranda’s contributions to Martinis Roe, Coming Home.

6 For more on how this functions and the ways out of it, see Elizabeth A. Povinelli, The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006).

7 Martinis Roe, To Become Two.

8 The Milan Women’s Bookstore Collective, Sexual Difference: A Theory of Social-Symbolic Practice, trans. Patricia Cicogna and Teresa De Lauretis (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990).

9 For more on making kin in the twenty-first century, see Donna Haraway, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Durham: Duke University Press, 2016).

10 For an example of how Jewish ethics resonate with Italian feminism, see Adriana Cavarero, For More than One Voice: Toward a Philosophy of Vocal Expression, trans. Paul A. Kottman (Stanford, Ca.: Stanford University Press, 2005) and Adriana Cavarero, Relating Narratives: Storytelling and Selfhood, trans. Paul A. Kottman (London and New York: Routledge, 2000). For an example of how Gurindji culture and activism have unconditional community bonds at their foundation, see Larissa Behrendt, ‘16th Vincent Lingiari Memorial Lecture’, in Still in My Mind: Gurundji Location, Experience and Visuality, ed. Brenda L. Croft, Penny Smith, and Felicity Meakins (St Lucia: University of Queensland Art Museum, 2017). For Black queer feminism in the USA as another example, see Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, ed., How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective (Chicago, Ill.: Haymarket Books, 2017) and Alicia Garza, The Purpose of Power: How to Build Movements for the 21st Century (New York: One World, 2020).