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Sharon P. Holland, Marcia Ochoa, and Kyla Wazana Tompkins, “On the Visceral,” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 20, no. 4 (October 1, 2014): 391–406, https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2721339.
On my mind
"In contrast to an ecstasy that imagines transcending corporeality, brown jouissance is a reveling in fleshiness, its sensuous materiality that brings together pleasure and pain." Amber Jamilla Musser, Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance
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"It happened because disabled queer and trans people of color started organizing, often with femme disabled Black and brown queer people in the lead. Much of that work has been done through writing, storytelling, and arts as activism. Much of our coming together has been through zines, online disabled QT/POC communities, Tumblr and blog and social media posts, or through three people getting together at a kitchen table or a group Skype call to start to hesitantly talk about our lives, organize a meal train, share pills and tips, or post the thoughts about activism and survival we have at two in the morning. It is underdocumented, private work--work often seen as not "real activism."" Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice 19
More Black lesbian and QTPOC dreaming, scheming, sex and sensuality in our work, please and thank you.
Brandon Byrd on white views of African American intellectual history:
“The scholars who rejected the most basic premise of Thorpe’s work—that historians could write an intellectual history of African Americans—directed undergradu- ate curriculums, controlled graduate admissions, reviewed grant applications, and controlled hiring decisions. Their disavowals of Black intellectual history appeared in such places as the Journal of Southern History, which seldom published scholarship by or about African Americans.” 841
And Richard Iton
"Love itself, the subversive gift, is an important public good, and loving is a significant political act, particularly among those signatized and marked as unworthy of love and incapable of deep commitment." In Search of the Black Fantastic
always learning,
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