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Memories and Condolences
for JOSE MUNOZ
B Ruby Rich
January 2, 2014
The world is a sadder, darker place with José gone from its midst. Condolences to all.
Rebecca Gordon
December 12, 2013
I had the good luck to meet you a few times, when I was in grad school and later, a visiting professor in the Midwest. Your work has made it possible for me to articulate so many things that I, and now, my students, would not have felt empowered to say. Un héroe intelectual, señor, se echo tanto de menos ya.
Dr.Luzma Umpierre
December 12, 2013
I wish I could say something quietly but I can't because I made a promise to myself that I would not talk on paper because paper writing brings me seizures for standing for Human Rights through out my life. And I was one of the very first to find out that he had died and I met him long ago but...Luz Perpetua, querido mio. El lirio puertorriqueño de la isla de Puerto Rico, Abniel, te reclama para tener un idilio en el cielo, a pesar de tu compañero, para decirnos adiós y hasta luego porque van a la gloria.
Kathy Rudy
December 11, 2013
Jose and I were in grad school and had many classes together. My best memory was a lunch at Bahns on 9th street. Both of us were queer and came from religious childhoods. We decided, that day, if we didn't make it in academia, we would start an evangelical bus ministry for queer kids. He got a lot closer to that goal than I did. Rock on Jose.
December 11, 2013
What you said was less important than what you did. When you wanted to explain Big Love as a "show," you simply made me and molly and john skate to the BB song. I got it. I get you. We will always and forever be your Sister Wives.
Lauren Berlant
December 11, 2013
" . . . because his family wished to imagine that he was not actually dead but instead had once again just fallen asleep reading the paper" (66). Miss you, Jose.
December 10, 2013
I wish I could tell you that I finally got IT. I want to hear you say "yo Dominica" again, or ask me for some "chisme, chisme"- your regular request for gossip whenever I walked through your office door. I remember closing the door, sitting on your couch as you leaned back and took it all in. We laughed, conspired, and then moved on to more pertinent business...It all seems so surreal. A toast and many gossip sessions full of laughter to you, JEM.
Alex Juhasz
December 10, 2013
Jose, To me our time was our early thirties: NYC, new professors. Our world felt endless, our joy felt unstoppable, power might even be ours, community already was. Even as I knew you after, that was the time we returned to. It meant so much to me: your humor, intelligence and kindness. You are a giant to so many of my students, and to queer studies, but to me, you are that young man, inventing a "little thing I'd like to call" a life. I will miss you in this one.
Uri McMillan
December 10, 2013
Jose's scholarship was lyrical, effervescent, courageous, and often deeply moving. They were not simply books, but blueprints for life. I will miss his warmth, generosity, and sage-like ability to tell us where we have been and where we are going.
Maud Lavin
December 10, 2013
Honoring, with gratitude, your brilliant and hopeful writing.
Jaclyn Pryor
December 10, 2013
José, you have transformed our thinking and feeling. And now it is for us to build the queer worlds that you imagined.
Lisa Biggs
December 10, 2013
One of the first classes I took in Performance Studies was with Jose Munoz. It was an honor to read 'Disidentifications' with him. The lessons continue to resonate. Rest in Peace and in Power.
Elizabeth Freeman
December 10, 2013
What I miss most, besides the books you will not write, is you not being here to make fun of everything, including me.
Lennard Davis
December 10, 2013
Sad for the missed opportunity to get to know you better, which would have happened at MLA this year, and perhaps at UIC later. Your work will be my companion and instructor instead.
Shante Smalls
December 10, 2013
I never got to tell you how much you changed my life. Knowing and experiencing you for the last ten years has been a pleasure. Journey on!
Lisa Duggan
December 10, 2013
From the Island of Misfit Toys, the flag is aflame and the wailing can be heard on the mainland. But just around the corner--celebration! Because we had you, and you had us.
December 10, 2013
A profound loss for scholarship and for those of us who had the privilege of knowing him...
Kyla Tompkins
December 10, 2013
Jose, somewhere I hope you are lounging in a bar called Utopia drinking and swapping stories. You gave us back the future and you deepened the present. Thank you for your work and your example in this world; your absence is more than we can bear.
Lawrence La Fountain
December 10, 2013
Profoundly saddened by this news. His contribution to the fields of performance studies and queer of color studies is unsurpassed.
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