Queer Theory

And what is religion in the modern age? On my journey to understand our modern zeitgeist, and my place within it, I inevitably stumbled across the Daily Wire, a conservative news website and media company founded by the wilful political commentator Ben Shapiro. Just a year ago I would have…

The Black Urbanist Weekly for March 24, 2023 The Earth is always there to hold us, mold us, and heal us. Can we let it do its thing, instead of trying to manipulate it, causing its destruction? This is The Black Urbanist Weekly with Kristen Jeffers, an email newsletter that highlights the Black Queer Feminist Urbanist thoughts and commentary of me, Kristen E. Jeffers, an internationally-known urban planner, fiber designer, and contributing editor. …

Don’t be Beige. Be a Rainbow — Today, I read a sickening piece by June Kirri. I won’t reference the title, as it is quite triggering. The title needs a trigger warning. So, as you can imagine, the article requires a giant screaming trigger warning. The article discusses a violent crime and the inadequacy, and inherent discrimination…

The Black Urbanist Weekly with Kristen Jeffers for March 17, 2023 Without humanity, everything we build is just statues and structures and experiments. Empty, hostile, and haunting. When we think about how people use what we make, and honor their diversity and ensure their inherent humanity, we always win. This is The Black Urbanist Weekly with Kristen Jeffers, an email newsletter that highlights the Black Queer Feminist Urbanist thoughts and commentary of me, Kristen E. Jeffers, an internationally-known urban planner, fiber designer, and contributing editor. …

Post 35 — Lois Shering addresses the notion that one does not need to earn their sexual identity. It gets to be completely self-defined. The work is to deconstruct what the culture has deemed ‘our identity’ due to our class, nationality, race, sex, gender, sexual identity, religion, relationship status and more. Inquiring into identity In order…

The Black Urbanist Weekly for March 10, 2023 What it looks like these days to go to my outside-of-home happy place. I’m usually carrying some yarn, reading a mixture of yarn and memoir and social science books in the cafe, and sneaking a few bites and drinks behind my mask…

Yes, some things need to be measured properly to work. However, when we measure actual humans in a certain way, it just creates marginalizations rather than liberation. This is The Black Urbanist Weekly with Kristen Jeffers, an email newsletter that highlights the Black Queer Feminist Urbanist thoughts and commentary of me, Kristen E. Jeffers, an internationally-known urban planner, fiber designer, and contributing editor. Think of this as an editorial page column, but directly in your email.

The Black Urbanist Weekly with Kristen Jeffers for February 24, 2023 We demonize the feminine and its sibling marginalizations at our peril, especially when much of what’s coded feminine in this iteration of society and urbanism are the things we all have to do and make to even survive as Earthlings. This is The Black Urbanist Weekly with Kristen Jeffers, an email newsletter that highlights the Black Queer Feminist Urbanist thoughts and commentary of me, Kristen E. Jeffers, an internationally-known urban planner, fiber designer, and contributing editor. …