DENSE PARTICULARITIES: Race, spirituality, and queer/quare intersectionalities

This chapter uses the notion of dense particularities as a means of talking about our lived and imagined difference. Using frameworks of Critical Race Theory and disidentification linked with queer/quare studies and spirituality, the author provides strategies of knowing the gendered self in society. This knowing is with respect to prevailing notions of intersectionality, palimpsest, and theories of the flesh as co-informing tropes that are not conflated as the same, and yet, not not the same in the dailiness of living. The chapter then moves to recontextualize the breadth and depth of these constructions back into the body; that is, the body as a critical site of knowing, showing, and telling of lived experience and of communicating queer/quare identity.