Tag Archives: immigration
Some Notes on Fashion’s “Labor Problem”
In Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique, Roderick Ferguson argues that industrial capital pursues labor regardless of labor’s “origins” while the political state secures its body politic through racial and gender regulations. He observes, “While capital can … Continue reading
Clothes Epidermalized, as Republican Representative Targets “Illegals”
In his 1974-1975 lectures at the College de France collected in the volume Abnormal, Michel Foucault discusses the creation of new technologies in modern “criminal justice” that categorize individuals who “resemble their crime before they commit it.” He’s specifically inquiring … Continue reading
Filed under FASHIONING RACE, FASHIONING THE HUMAN
ART: Sneakers and Borders
After several years of design research, in 2005 New York-based Argentinian artist Judi Werthein designed a high-top sneaker for both the sneaker freak collecting limited editions, to whom the sneaker is available for $215 a pair at a San Diego … Continue reading
Filed under LINKAGE, OUR JUNK DRAWER
Queer + Fashion
Some weeks ago, my brilliant sister-friend Iraya Robles (formerly of San Francisco’s queercore outfit Sta-Prest) told me about a performance she wanted to put together about Tina Chow, the iconic mixed-race model and socialite who died in 1992 from AIDS-related … Continue reading
