Shelley Park is a Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Studies at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida where she teaches courses in feminist theory, gender and sexuality and postcolonial theory. Much of her work focuses on non-normative forms of kinship and care. She is the Associate Editor of Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture, a guest editor of Hypatia’s special issue on “Contested Terrains: Women of Color and Third World Women, Feminisms and Geopolitics” (Summer 2017) and the author of Mothering Queerly, Queering Motherhood: Resisting Monomaternalism in Adoptive, Lesbian, Blended, and Polygamous Families (NY: SUNY Press, 2013). She is currently working on a book length project tentatively entitled Mothers, Lovers and Others: Technologies of Care in the 21st Century.
As commenter
Vulnerability as potential?
The weird, the eerie, the uncanny, the queer . . .
Loneliness and melancholia
containment and care
meta discourse
diginormativity?
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