Queer Threads

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1 Jeanne Vaccaro, “Review: Queer Threads: Crafting Identity & Community,” The Journal of Modern Craft 7, no. 3 (November 2014): 325–327.

2 Charles M. Blow, “Opinion: Yes, We’re in an L.G.B.T.Q. State of Emergency 2023,” The New York Times, June 7, 2023, www.nytimes.com/2023/06/07/opinion/pride-lgbtq-laws.html (accessed August 26, 2023).

3 Wall Text, Queer Threads (San Jose, CA: San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, 2023).

4 James Essinger, Jacquard’s Web: How a Hand Loom Led to the Birth of the Information Age (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).

5 Sadie Plant, Zeros + Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture (London: Fourth Estate, 1997), 61.

6 José Esteban Muñoz, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (New York: New York University Press, 2009), 95. The text I am paraphrasing comes from a section of Muñoz’s book, in which he critiques Lee Edelman’s work on “reproductive futurism” for not accounting for how the question of race, and in particular the question of Blackness, figures within the kinds of heteronormative and queer temporalities that Edelman discusses in his book, No Future (Duke University Press, 2004). Muñoz’s full original quote reads: “The future is only the stuff of some kids. Racialized kids, queer kids, are not the sovereign princes of the future.”

7 Barack Obama, “Remarks by the President in State of the Union Address,” The White House of President Barack Obama, January 20, 2015, https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/01/20/remarks-president-state-union-address-January-20-2015 (accessed August 26, 2023).

8 This is a sentiment that Chaich has, himself, stated elsewhere, in relation to his Queer Threads project, and in concert with many other queer theorists and activists. See Cherri Lakey, “‘Queer Threads’ Weaves Together LGBTQ Trauma, Hope and Resilience,” KQED, May 20, 2023, www.kqed.org/arts/13929422/queer-threads-weaves-together-lgbtq-trauma-hope-and-resilience (accessed August 26, 2023); Lia Tabackman, “‘Queer Threads’ Symposium Weaves Together Art and Community,” The Commonwealth Times, April 18, 2017, https://commonwealthtimes.org/2017/04/18/queer-threads-symposium/ (accessed August 26, 2023).

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Nicole Archer

Nicole Archer, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in Visual and Critical Studies at Montclair State University’s Department of Art and Design. She also serves as a member of the College Art Association’s Board of Directors.