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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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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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A Flash of Life and Light

May 20, 2020May 20, 2020 Kevin Quashie #WaywardLives, black feminism, Black Studies, Black women, blackness, Gender, Literary studies, literature, race, urban history

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of African American History. How to contend with

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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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Intimate Historical Practice

May 18, 2020May 17, 2020 Sarah Haley #WaywardLives, archives, black feminism, Black Studies, Black women, blackness, Gender, Historical Memory, literature, race, slavery

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of African American History. Saidiya Hartman has stacked

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