Being Time

Authors

  • Alisa Bierria University of California, Los Angeles

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5206/fpq/2023.2.16602

Keywords:

agency, prison, temporality, black feminist philosophy, gender violence

Abstract

In her groundbreaking volume Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience at the Edge, Cressida Heyes provokes readers with the question, “How might experience not only motivate politics but also itself act as a medium of political change?” This essay builds on Heyes’s provocation by exploring self-making and self-advocacy within carceral political economies. Engaging Heyes’s discussion of “normative temporality,” I consider unstable subjectivities and a black feminist formation of “revelatory agency” to contend that the carceral consumption of human life-time expands, complicates, or radically shifts the scope of the political.

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Author Biography

Alisa Bierria, University of California, Los Angeles

ALISA BIERRIA is an assistant professor in the Department of Gender Studies at UCLA and a cofounder of the national organization Survived & Punished. A black feminist philosopher, Alisa has a forthcoming book titled Missing in Action: Agency, Race, and Invention, which explores how intention is constructed within systems of antiblack racism, carceral reasoning, and gendered violence. She is also a coeditor of Abolition Feminisms, Vol. 1: Organizing, Survival, and Transformative Practice and Abolition Feminisms, Vol. 2: Feminist Ruptures against the Carceral State (Haymarket Books, 2022), and a special issue of the journal Social Justice, titled “Community Accountability: Emerging Movements to Transform Violence” (2010).

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Published

2023-06-16

How to Cite

Bierria, Alisa. 2023. “Being Time”. Feminist Philosophy Quarterly 9 (2). https://doi.org/10.5206/fpq/2023.2.16602.

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 2 (2023)

Section

Symposium, peer-reviewed

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