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Black Madness :: Mad Blackness — An Author’s Response

March 12, 2020March 12, 2020 Therí A. Pickens #BlackMadness, black feminism, Black Studies, disability, Disability Studies, Literary studies, literature, race

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Therí A. Pickens’s Black Madness :: Mad Blackness I was surprised

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Radical Hospitality and the Beauty of Black Queer Kinship

August 1, 2019July 28, 2019 Emerald Rutledge #TonguesUntied30, Black film, Black Queers, film, Gender, LGBT, race, sexuality

*This post is part of our online forum to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of Marlon Riggs’s groundbreaking film, Tongues Untied. It was

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Essex Hemphill. Photo: Poetry Foundation.

Excavating Black Queer Thought: A Pride Bibliography

June 28, 2019June 26, 2019 Emerald Rutledge black feminism, Black film, Black Queers, blackness, Gender, race, Resistance, sexuality

To close out Pride Month 2019, I compiled a list of texts ranging from traditional academic works to cultural

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The Historical Significance of Black Queer Films

March 7, 2019March 9, 2019 Emerald Rutledge Black film, Black Queers, blackness, Essex Hemphill, hip hop, Marlon Riggs, sexuality

In the context of the reemergence of Black nationalist rhetoric and ideologies in hip-hop music in the late 1980s and

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After Intersectionality: A New Book on Black Feminism

February 22, 2019August 12, 2022 Emerald Rutledge black feminism, black intellectual history, Black women, Gender, intersectionality

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

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