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Looking Back: Convict Leasing and the Trusty System

January 14, 2021January 11, 2021 Charlene J. Fletcher #WeAreNotSlaves, carceral state, mass incarceration, prisons, sexuality

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Robert T. Chase’s We Are Not Slaves. Over the past four

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Carceral Studies and Same-Sex Intimacy

January 12, 2021January 10, 2021 Timothy Stewart-Winter #WeAreNotSlaves, carceral state, LGBT, mass incarceration, prisons, sexual violence, sexuality

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Robert T. Chase’s We Are Not Slaves. Robert T. Chase’s book, We

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Black Queer Women and Femmes Fight for Housing Rights in Brooklyn

October 12, 2020October 19, 2020 Emily Batiste #Autoethnographies, Activism, Black Queers, class, COVID-19, race, racism, student activism

Editor’s note: This essay is part of our two-week blog series, featuring eight autoethnographies from students at Brooklyn College. Read

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Pauli Murray and the Need for Racial Reckoning

October 5, 2020October 4, 2020 Barbara Lau and Robin Kirk Activism, black feminism, black protest, Black women, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, education, Gender, race, racism, Resistance, sexuality, South

Confederate monuments are toppling across the nation following the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other African Americans.

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Essex Hemphill. Photo: Poetry Foundation.

Teaching HIV and Black Queer Studies During Crisis

June 25, 2020June 26, 2020 William Mosley Black Queer Identity, COVID-19, HIV-AIDS, pedagogy

A common phrase we hear currently, “these unprecedented times,” is often deployed as a shorthand refrain to convey the total

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