Underrepresentation in the LGBT+ Spectrum
Black Identity
Being Black, especially in the United States, and LGBT+ often gets overlooked within LGBT+ activism and education. Here is the collection of materials specifically devoted to being Black and LGBT+, highlighted these intersecting experiences.
Blacktino Queer Performance
Blacktino Queer Performance
Blacktino Queer Performance by Call Number: HU-Gen Coll PN1590.G39 B533 2016 and E-BookPublication Date: 2016Staging an important new conversation between performers and critics, Blacktino Queer Performance approaches the interrelations of blackness and Latinidad through a stimulating mix of theory and art. The collection contains nine performance scripts by established and emerging black and Latina/o queer playwrights and performance artists, each accompanied by an interview and critical essay conducted or written by leading scholars of black, Latina/o, and queer expressive practices. As the volume's framing device, "blacktino" grounds the specificities of black and brown social and political relations while allowing the contributors to maintain the goals of queer-of-color critique. Whether interrogating constructions of Latino masculinity, theorizing the black queer male experience, or examining black lesbian relationships, the contributors present blacktino queer performance as an artistic, critical, political, and collaborative practice. These scripts, interviews, and essays not only accentuate the value of blacktino as a reading device; they radiate the possibilities for thinking through the concepts of blacktino, queer, and performance across several disciplines. Blacktino Queer Performance reveals the inevitable flirtations, frictions, and seductions that mark the contours of any ethnoracial love affair.
No Tea, No Shade
No Tea, No Shade by Call Number: HU-Gen Coll E185.625 .N59 2016Publication Date: 2016The follow-up to the groundbreaking Black Queer Studies, the edited collection No Tea, No Shade brings together nineteen essays from the next generation of scholars, activists, and community leaders doing work on black gender and sexuality. Building on the foundations laid by the earlier volume, this collection's contributors speak new truths about the black queer experience while exemplifying the codification of black queer studies as a rigorous and important field of study. Topics include "raw" sex, pornography, the carceral state, gentrification, gender nonconformity, social media, the relationship between black feminist studies and black trans studies, the black queer experience throughout the black diaspora, and queer music, film, dance, and theater. The contributors both disprove naysayers who believed black queer studies to be a passing trend and respond to critiques of the field's early U.S. bias. Deferring to the past while pointing to the future, No Tea, No Shade pushes black queer studies in new and exciting directions.
Additional material: Janelle Monáe on Growing Up Queer and Black
Singer-artist Janelle Monáe partners with The New Yorker to share her experiences as being both a queer and Black woman, especially outside of her stage presence, at what that means to her and to those she loves.
Unapologetic
Unapologetic by Call Number: HU-Gen Coll HQ75.6.U5 C36 2018Publication Date: 2018A manifesto from one of America's most influential activists which disrupts political, economic, and social norms by reimagining the Black Radical Tradition.
Drawing on Black intellectual and grassroots organizing traditions, including the Haitian Revolution, the US civil rights movement, and LGBTQ rights and feminist movements, Unapologetic challenges all of us engaged in the social justice struggle to make the movement for Black liberation more radical, more queer, and more feminist. This book provides a vision for how social justice movements can become sharper and more effective through principled struggle, healing justice, and leadership development. It also offers a flexible model of what deeply effective organizing can be, anchored in the Chicago model of activism, which features long-term commitment, cultural sensitivity, creative strategizing, and multiple cross-group alliances. And Unapologetic provides a clear framework for activists committed to building transformative power, encouraging young people to see themselves as visionaries and leaders.
Additional material: Scenes From a Black, Trans Life
In this TedTalk given by Professor D-L Stewart, Dr. Stewart reflects on being both Black and trans in and out of the academic world, and the resilience needed to overcome the challenges along the way.