{"id":2967,"date":"2022-06-23T12:40:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/?p=2967"},"modified":"2022-06-22T15:25:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T21:25:43","slug":"bils-associate-professor-wins-prize-for-best-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/blog\/2022\/06\/23\/bils-associate-professor-wins-prize-for-best-article\/","title":{"rendered":"BILS Associate Professor Wins Prize for Best Article"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Belinda Deneen Wallace, Associate Professor of British and Irish Literary Studies, is the winner of the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/cha-shc.ca\/affiliates\/cchs-winner-of-the-2022-cchs-best-article-prize.htm\" target=\"_blank\">2022 Prize for Best Article<\/a> from the Canadian Committee on the History of Sexuality for her article,\u00a0\u201cOur Lives: Scribal Activism, Intimacy, and Black Lesbian Visibility in 1980s Canada,\u201d\u00a0which appeared in the\u00a0<em>Journal of Canadian Studies<\/em>\u00a0 54, 2-3 (Spring 2020): 334-359.  Wallace&#8217;s article was part of a special issue on &#8220;Queer Canada&#8221; from the Journal of Canadian Studies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The selection committee had this to say about Wallace&#8217;s article:&nbsp;\u201cDr. Belinda Wallace offers a stimulating and generative journey into Black lesbian-feminist mobilization during the 1980s by focusing on Toronto\u2019s first Black women\u2019s newspaper,&nbsp;<em>Our Lives<\/em>, founded in 1986 by the Black Women\u2019s Collective. Using the term \u201cscribal activism\u201d as a vehicle to describe the \u201cstrategic use of the written word, including symbols, to fervently advocate for social change,\u201d Wallace charts how&nbsp;<em>Our Lives<\/em>&nbsp;played an integral role in establishing a \u201cnew politic\u201d in response to the invisibility and marginalization Black lesbians experienced in the context of the feminist movement. Wallace re-narrates the script of the feminist movement by using \u201cqueertimacy\u201d as analytical tool. A term coined by Wallace, queertimacy nurtured kinship networks and propagated a fertile space for Black lesbian feminists to explore Blackness, queerness, and \u201cfemaleness\u201d through knowledge creation. Wallace presents compelling archival examples of this knowledge creation as liberatory practice gleaned from the pages of&nbsp;<em>Our Lives<\/em>, including artwork, reviews of plays, and essays on the Black lesbian experience, such as Donna Barker\u2019s 1987 essay, \u201cWomen Loving Women.\u201d With this rich archive, Wallace sheds much-needed light on the significant contributions of Black lesbian creativity, visibility, and community.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belinda Deneen Wallace, Associate Professor of British and Irish Literary Studies, is the winner of the 2022 Prize for Best Article from the Canadian Committee on the History of Sexuality for her article,\u00a0\u201cOur Lives: Scribal Activism, Intimacy, and Black Lesbian Visibility in 1980s Canada,\u201d\u00a0which appeared in the\u00a0Journal of Canadian Studies\u00a0 54, 2-3 (Spring 2020): 334-359. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2967"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3011,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967\/revisions\/3011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}