Bridging/Broken in the Break

Abstract:This essay takes up a feminist-of-color disability poetics of the "bridge" and the "break." It is a textual performance of queer and ghostly intimacies, of being with and being for each other and our ancestors in the erotics and heartbreak of "brokenness" and in the mourning work of bridging generations, centuries, continents, and spacetime. Across this piece, bridging is an ongoing labor and practice of solidarity and moving between worlds, in spite and because of the multitudes of ways our bodies are "broken" by the world. The break is posed in multiple registers as a liminal space in which the pains and pleasures of modernity are bridged. We explore how the drama and trauma of the "post-colonial condition" is an inheritance we must never and must always break away from.