Black or Gay: Meditations on Marlon Riggs’s Tongues Untied at 30
*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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Starfish and Guerrilla Warfare: Marlon Riggs’s Tongues Untied at 30 Years
*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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Online Forum: Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Marlon Riggs’s Tongues Untied
July 29–August 2, 2019 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum to commemorate
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Excavating Black Queer Thought: A Pride Bibliography
To close out Pride Month 2019, I compiled a list of texts ranging from traditional academic works to cultural
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“Swinging While I’m Singing”: Spike Lee, Public Enemy, and the Message in the Music
“1989, a number, another summer, sound of the funky drummer” —Public Enemy, “Fight the Power” The scene may be the
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