Did Europe Bring Homophobia to Africa?
Recently at a public forum, someone asked me if “same-sex relations in Africa [are] un-African?” While answering the question,
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Lil Nas X: the AIDS Activist Gen Z Needs
Lil Nas X’s performance at the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards was—as fans have come to expect—a virtuosic entry in
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Excavating Black Queer Thought: A Pride Bibliography (Part III)
In honor of Pride Month 2021, I wanted to extend the list of texts from the bibliography offered last year,
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Black Lesbian Thought: An Interview with Briona Simone Jones
In today’s post, Emerald Rutledge, an associate editor of Black Perspectives, interviews Briona Simone Jones on her new edited collection, Mouths of
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On the Life and Work of Audre Lorde
*This post is part of our online forum on the Life and Work of Audre Lorde The spectacle of a dying
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