In this episode of Audio QT, Karma Chávez talks with Dr. Xavier Livermon about his work exploring how Black queer youth use art, aesthetics, and creative practice to animate Black freedom politics.
Faith Williams reviews Keguro Macharia’s book, Frottage: Frictions of Intimacy Across the Black Diaspora, part of UT Libraries’ Black Queer Collection.
Anthony Douglass reviews Carrie Hawks’s animated documentary Black Enuf, viewing it as a touchpoint for his own journey to accepting his Blackness and queerness.
Terrane Ansley reviews E. Patrick Johnson’s book of curated stories and legacies of several Black gay southern men who lived and loved in the mid- to late twentieth century.
Growing up a shy, effeminate fag in small town Massachusetts in the 1980s and early 90s was an education in alienation. [This post includes a Queercore music playlist curated by Curran Nault!]
