I can’t believe it’s already February of the new year. And nearly mid-February at that. I will be headed back to Ohio next week to visit, to check in on things there, and to do a talk for Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies’ spring colloquium. I will be presenting with Tyler Everett Adams, a PhD student in Interdisciplinary Arts. He and I just published an article on queerness, camp, and the Barbie (2023) movie. It should be a fun event (plus it’s Valentine’s Day):
“Barbie, Muñoz, and Utopian Camp: A Conversation”
Friday, February 14, 2025
12:00 to 1:00 PM
Bentley 110
Ohio University
What does it mean to queer camp? How does camp intersect with race, gender, sexuality, identity, & performativity? Most fabulously, what do Barbie (2023) & camp have to do with utopia? According to Tyler Everett Adams and Edmond Y. Chang, quite a lot. Drawing on their shared love* of the work José Esteban Muñoz & their recently published essay “‘That’s Because They’re Dream Houses, Mother!’: Barbie, Utopian Camp, and a Conversation Between Two Allans” (Liminalities, 2024), we will chat, kiki, and discuss how camp can offer a means to consider vibrant, queerer futures, as well as extend queer of color, feminist, and performance studies critique.
