Black Is, Black Ain’t: “Unnatural by Whose Standard?”
Representations of Blackness in film and other visual mediums have often presented Black identity in ways that are limiting and
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LGBT
Did Europe Bring Homophobia to Africa?
Recently at a public forum, someone asked me if “same-sex relations in Africa [are] un-African?” While answering the question,
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Excavating Black Queer Thought: A Pride Bibliography (Part III)
In honor of Pride Month 2021, I wanted to extend the list of texts from the bibliography offered last year,
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Black Lesbian Thought: An Interview with Briona Simone Jones
In today’s post, Emerald Rutledge, an associate editor of Black Perspectives, interviews Briona Simone Jones on her new edited collection, Mouths of
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The African American Struggle Against HIV/AIDS
The devastation wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic over the past year has intensified scrutiny of racial health inequities in the
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