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Black or Gay: Meditations on Marlon Riggs’s Tongues Untied at 30

July 30, 2019July 30, 2019 Lavelle Porter #TonguesUntied30, art, Black film, Black Queers, film, Gender, LGBT, race, sexuality

*This post is part of our online forum to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of Marlon Riggs’s groundbreaking film, Tongues Untied. “Priorities. That’s

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Making the Revolution Irresistible: An Interview with Aishah Shahidah Simmons

July 30, 2019July 28, 2019 Keelyn Bradley #TonguesUntied30, Activism, black feminism, Black Queers, Black women, Gender, interview, LGBT

*This post is part of our online forum to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of Marlon Riggs’s groundbreaking film, Tongues Untied. Keelyn Bradley:

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Starfish and Guerrilla Warfare: Marlon Riggs’s Tongues Untied at 30 Years

July 29, 2019July 28, 2019 Keelyn Bradley #TonguesUntied30, art, Black film, Black Queers, film, Gender, LGBT, race, sexuality, trans identity

*This post is part of our online forum to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of Marlon Riggs’s groundbreaking film, Tongues Untied. During a

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Essex Hemphill. Photo: Poetry Foundation.

Excavating Black Queer Thought: A Pride Bibliography

June 28, 2019June 26, 2019 Emerald Rutledge black feminism, Black film, Black Queers, blackness, Gender, race, Resistance, sexuality

To close out Pride Month 2019, I compiled a list of texts ranging from traditional academic works to cultural

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Harlem as Setting and Symbol

June 6, 2019June 16, 2019 LaShawn Harris Activism, black politics, culture, gentrification, Harlem, Harlem Renaissance

Examining Harlem’s long career as “setting and symbol” of African American and Diasporic life and culture, Race Capital?: Harlem as Setting

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