Jargon for the Blacks—and Others
Time and again, usually a few times a year, I haphazardly stumble upon someone castigating the use of “jargon,” at
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Author: Marquis Bey
Queer, Gender Blender, Blur: A Meditation on Tongues Untied
*This post is part of our online forum to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of Marlon Riggs’s groundbreaking film, Tongues Untied. As we
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Tears, Tears: On Black Masculinity
The men I grew up around were men. They were men because they believed they were, and were adamant about
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Blackness, Gender, and the Non-normative
*A version of this essay originally appeared on Public Seminar, as part of its Race/isms Book Forum on The Making of Black Lives Matter:
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