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Essex Hemphill. Photo: Poetry Foundation.

Teaching HIV and Black Queer Studies During Crisis

June 25, 2020June 26, 2020 William Mosley 0 Comments
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

“This Is Chaos:” Order Maintenance and the Fear of Black Anarchy in Atlanta

June 23, 2020June 21, 2020 Danielle Wiggins 1 Comment
Atlanta, sexuality, youth

Late on May 30, 2020, Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms rose to national notoriety with a passionate speech that rebuked not

Excavating Black Queer Thought: A Pride Bibliography II

June 23, 2020June 21, 2020 Emerald Rutledge 0 Comments
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,

From HIV-AIDS to COVID-19: Black Vulnerability and Medical Uncertainty

June 15, 2020June 15, 2020 Antoine S. Johnson 0 Comments
COVID-19, Harm Reduction, HIV-AIDS, medical racism

As America experiences mounting unrest amid the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and protests against police’s senseless murdering of Black people,

Intimate History, Radical Narrative

May 22, 2020June 3, 2020 Saidiya Hartman #WaywardLives, black feminism, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Black women, Gender, Resistance, W.E.B. Du Bois

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of African American History. Archival documents are scattered

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