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Departures in Critical Qualitative Research
Cracking Up Time
Black Feminist Comedic Performance and Queer Temporalities in the Standup of Wanda Sykes
Katelyn Hale Wood
Depart Crit Qual Res, Vol. 5 No. 3, Fall 2016; (pp. 10-32) DOI: 10.1525/dcqr.2016.5.3.10
Katelyn Hale Wood
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This essay theorizes how black feminist comedic performance queers white supremacist and heteronormative notions of time by centering Wanda Sykes's performance in her comedy special I'ma Be Me and her performance at the White House Correspondents' Dinner—both in 2009. Sykes's jokes articulate how queer bodies of color experience temporalities that are in constant tension with dominant narrations of “coming out,” national heritage, and white nostalgia. I argue that Sykes uses comedic performance to: (1) reveal the limits of “progressive” coming out narratives for black queer women, (2) reinstate black subjectivity into US collective memory, (3) debunk myths of the United States as “post-” identity politics, and (4) challenge broader publics to think beyond linear and binary constructions of identity/ies, space, and time.

  • Black feminism
  • Queer
  • Comedy
  • Wanda Sykes
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Vol. 5 No. 3, Fall 2016

Departures in Critical Qualitative Research: 5 (3)
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Cracking Up Time
Black Feminist Comedic Performance and Queer Temporalities in the Standup of Wanda Sykes
Katelyn Hale Wood
Depart Crit Qual Res, Vol. 5 No. 3, Fall 2016; (pp. 10-32) DOI: 10.1525/dcqr.2016.5.3.10
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Cracking Up Time
Black Feminist Comedic Performance and Queer Temporalities in the Standup of Wanda Sykes
Katelyn Hale Wood
Depart Crit Qual Res, Vol. 5 No. 3, Fall 2016; (pp. 10-32) DOI: 10.1525/dcqr.2016.5.3.10
Katelyn Hale Wood
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    • BLACK FEMINIST COMEDIANS AND CRACKING UP TIME
    • COMING OUT AS BLACK
    • HISTORY BUSTS OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE
    • LETTING IT ALL HANG OUT: FUTURITY AND EMBODIED BLACK FEMINIST PRAXIS
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