Mouthful of Honey: The Ecoacoustics of Brown Bottomhood

Félix Solano Vargas traces reparative brown queer and trans forms of communication with attention to sound and silence in his presentation, “Mouthful of Honey: The Ecoacoustics of Brown Bottomhood.” Weaving Anzaldúan... [ view full abstract ]

Félix Solano Vargas traces reparative brown queer and trans forms of communication with attention to sound and silence in his presentation, “Mouthful of Honey: The Ecoacoustics of Brown Bottomhood.” Weaving Anzaldúan mestiza consciousness with an analysis of a performance art piece, Honey, by the Filipina/Salvadoran artist Julie Tolentino, Vargas asks a series of questions about sound and knowledge: What does sound carry in the ways that it shapes knowledge that is otherwise erased from historical record? How do hearing and listening work differently? How do they shape recordings of silence made into the audible, the reparative? How do such renderings relate to and complicate the languages, utterances and silences in Latina/o, Trans and Performance Studies?

Panel 194