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Black and Latinx LGBTQ Communities: An Author Interview with Siobhan Brooks

February 3, 2021February 3, 2021 Tyler Parry black, Black Queer Identity, Black Queers, Gender, intersectionality, Latino/a, LGBT, religion, sexual violence, sexuality, trans identity, violence

In today’s post, senior editor Tyler D. Parry interviews Siobhan Brooks on her new book Everyday Violence against Black and

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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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Excavating Black Queer Thought: A Pride Bibliography II

June 23, 2020June 21, 2020 Emerald Rutledge black feminism, Black Queer Identity, Black Queers, film, Gender, LGBT, literature, race, sexuality, trans identity

In honor of Pride Month 2020, I wanted to extend the list of texts from the bibliography offered last year,

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Recovering the Lives of City Women

May 19, 2020May 19, 2020 LaShawn Harris #politicsofrespectability, #WaywardLives, archives, black feminism, Black Queers, Black women, freedom, fugitivity, geography, sexuality, urban history

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of African American History. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments is

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Countering the Jaggedness– Shabez Jamal and New Black Surrealisms

March 2, 2020March 17, 2020 AAIHS Editors #NewBlackSurrealisms, art, Black film, Black Queer Identity, Black Queers, film, Gender, LGBT, race

*This post is part of our New Black Surrealisms series organized by Tiffany E. Barber and Jerome Dent and features

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