Sexuality - AAIHS

Cosmological Queerness Across the Yoruba Diaspora

February 5, 2017April 2, 2018 James Padilioni Jr Afro-Brazilians, Black Queers, Brazil, religion, slave trade, slavery

The constellating topics of homosexuality and masculinity are perennial to Black American discourses. In contemporary debates, the chorus shouting loudest

Audre Lorde standing in front of board reading "Women are powerful and dangerous." Source: The Guardian.

Black Queer Writers and the Transformative Possibilities of Queer Sensuality

January 17, 2017January 19, 2017 J. T. Roane black intellectual history, Black Queers, sexuality

Black Queer writers of the 1980s hoped to precipitate a seismic transformation in the political culture of the United States.

“Death Is Attached to Their Behavior”: Kim Burrell and Trans Women of Color

January 10, 2017January 12, 2017 Lindsey E. Jones black lives matter

In a video clip that has spread widely across the internet, gospel singer and pastor Kim Burrell intones, “Everybody in

Fashioning Lives: A New Book on Black Queers and the Politics of Literacy

January 6, 2017January 8, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi black feminism, Black Queers, Literary studies

This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

Locating Black Queer Pasts

December 13, 2016August 11, 2018 J. T. Roane

Black queer histories—those that index the forms of social life that have flourished in the shadows created by state-sponsored violence,