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Counter Black Queer Freedom: Spaces of Injury and Paths of Desire
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- GerShun Avilez
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- 2020
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- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
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- Whether engaged in same-sex desire or gender nonconformity, black queer individuals live with being perceived as a threat while simultaneously being subjected to the threat of physical, psychological, and socioeconomic injury. Attending to and challenging threats has become a defining element in queer black artists' work throughout the black diaspora. GerShun Avilez analyzes the work of diasporic artists who, denied government protections, have used art to create spaces for justice. He first focuses on how the state seeks to inhibit the movement of black queer bodies through public spaces, whether on the street or across borders. From there, he pivots to institutional spaces--specifically prisons and hospitals--and the ways such places seek to expose queer bodies in order to control them. Throughout, he reveals how desire and art open routes to black queer freedom when policy, the law, racism, and homophobia threaten physical safety, civil rights, and social mobility.
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- English
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- African American gays, Gays, Black, African American arts, Gay artists, Homophobia, Racism, and Queer theory
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- LC: 2020023363, ISBN: 0252052250, ISBN: 9780252052255, OCLC: (OCoLC)1159605355, OCLC: (OCoLC)on1159605355, and ISBN: 9780252043376
Counter Evidence of Being: The Black Gay Cultural Renaissance and the Politics of Violence
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- Darius Bost
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- 2018
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- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
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- Evidence of Being opens on a grim scene: Washington DC's gay black community in the 1980s, ravaged by AIDS, the crack epidemic, and a series of unsolved murders, seemingly abandoned by the government and mainstream culture. Yet in this darkest of moments, a new vision of community and hope managed to emerge. Darius Bost's account of the media, poetry, and performance of this time and place reveals a stunning confluence of activism and the arts. In Washington and New York during the 1980s and '90s, gay black men banded together, using creative expression as a tool to challenge the widespread views that marked them as unworthy of grief. They created art that enriched and reimagined their lives in the face of pain and neglect, while at the same time forging a path toward bold new modes of existence. At once a corrective to the predominantly white male accounts of the AIDS crisis and an openhearted depiction of the possibilities of black gay life, Evidence of Being above all insists on the primacy of community over loneliness, and hope over despair.
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- African American gay men -- Washington (D.C.)| African American gay men -- New York (State) -- New York| American literature -- African American authors| Hemphill, Essex| Dixon, Melvin, 1950-1992
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- ISBN: 0-226-58996-X| OCLC: (OCoLC)1076262129| ISBN: 0-226-58982-X| ISBN: 0-226-58979-X
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- Black Queer Studies Collection
Counter Freshwater
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- Akwaeke Emezi
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- 2018
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- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
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- An extraordinary debut novel, Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self. It centers around a young Nigerian woman, Ada, who develops separate selves within her as a result of being born "with one foot on the other side." Unsettling, heartwrenching, dark, and powerful, Freshwater is a sharp evocation of a rare way of experiencing the world, one that illuminates how we all construct our identities. Ada begins her life in the south of Nigeria as a troubled baby and a source of deep concern to her family. Her parents, Saul and Saachi, successfully prayed her into existence, but as she grows into a volatile and splintered child, it becomes clear that something went terribly awry. When Ada comes of age and moves to America for college, the group of selves within her grows in power and agency. A traumatic assault leads to a crystallization of her alternate selves: Asụghara and Saint Vincent. As Ada fades into the background of her own mind and these selves, now protective, now hedonistic, move into control, Ada's life spirals in a dark and dangerous direction. Narrated from the perspective of the various selves within Ada, and based in the author's realities, Freshwater explores the metaphysics of identity and mental health, plunging the reader into the mystery of being and self. Freshwater dazzles with ferocious energy and serpentine grace, heralding the arrival of a fierce new literary voice.
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- Women -- Nigeria, Identity (Psychology), Nigeria, Fiction, and Autobiographical fiction
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- LC: 2017028925, ISBN: 9780802127358, ISBN: 0802127355, OCLC: (OCoLC)990286953, and ISBN: 9780802165565
Counter Frottage: Frictions of Intimacy Across the Black Diaspora
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- Keguro Macharia
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- 2019
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- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
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- English
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- African diaspora, Blacks -- Social conditions, Sex, and Queer theory
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- ISBN: 1479802506, ISBN: 9781479802500, OCLC: (OCoLC)1120690171, OCLC: (OCoLC)on1120690171, and ISBN: 9781479881147
Counter Hurricane Child
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- Kacen Callender
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- 2018
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- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
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- Born on Water Island in the Virgin Islands during a hurricane, which is considered bad luck, twelve-year-old Caroline falls in love with another girl--and together they set out in a hurricane to find Caroline's missing mother.
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- African American girls, Mothers and daughters, Missing persons, Fathers and daughters, Friendship, Hurricanes, Acting out (Psychology), African American lesbians, United States Virgin Islands, Fiction, Juvenile works, and Fantasy fiction
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- LC: 2017032545, ISBN: 9781338129304, ISBN: 1338129309, and OCLC: (OCoLC)1000585897
Counter In the Life: A Black Gay Anthology
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- Joseph Beam
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- 1986
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- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
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- Gay men, American literature -- African American authors, African American gays, American literature -- 20th century, and Gay men's writings, American
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- LC: 86017283, ISBN: 0932870732 (pbk.), and OCLC: (OCoLC)ocm14003004
Counter Major!
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- Annalise Ophelian
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- 2016
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- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
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- MAJOR! is a documentary film exploring the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a formerly incarcerated Black transgender elder and activist who has been fighting for the rights of trans women of color for over 40 years. At the heart of MAJOR! is a social justice framework that puts the subjects at the center of their story. MAJOR! was produced in collaboration with Miss Major, the film's participants, and a transPOC Community Advisory Board to ensure that these stories, which are so often marginalized, exoticized, or played for tragic drama, retain the agency and humanity of those who tell them. Miss Major is a veteran of the Stonewall Rebellion and a survivor of Attica State Prison, a former sex worker, an elder, and a community leader and human rights activist. She is simply 'Mama' to many in her community. If history is held within us, embodied in our loves and losses, then Miss Major is a living library, a resource for generations to come to more fully understand the rich heritage of the Queer Rights movement that is so often whitewashed and rendered invisible. Miss Major's personal story and activism for transgender civil rights intersects LGBT struggles for justice and equality from the 1960s to today. At the center of her activism is her fierce advocacy for her girls, trans women of color who have survived police brutality and incarceration in men's jails and prisons. In October 2015, Miss Major retired from her role as executive director of the San Francisco-based Transgender GenderVariant Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP), advocating for trans women of color in and outside of prison. MAJOR! is more than just a biographical documentary: It's an investigation into critical issues of how the Prison Industrial Complex represents a wide-spread and systematic civil rights violation, as well as a historical portrait of diverse LGBT communities, told with love and humor, and personalized through the lens of a vibrant and charismatic woman. Through first-person narration and innovative visual story telling, MAJOR! seeks to create a living, breathing history of a community's struggle and resilience, as seen and experienced by those who lived it.
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- Film
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- Griffin-Gracy, Major, 1940-, Transgender people -- United States, Documentary films, Biographical films, and Nonfiction films
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- OCLC: (OCoLC)957676232
Counter Moonlight
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- Barry Jenkins
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- 2016
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- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
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- A young black man struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami.
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- Film
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- African American men -- Florida -- Miami, African American boys -- Florida -- Miami, Metropolitan areas -- Florida -- Miami, Urban youth -- Florida -- Miami, Florida -- Miami, Drama, Film adaptations, Coming-of-age films, Feature films, and Fiction films
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- PUBNUM: 100084E and OCLC: (OCoLC)975284744
Counter Paris is Burning
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- Jennie Livingston
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- 1990
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- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
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- The unblinking behind-the-scenes story of the fashion-obsessed New Yorkers who created 'voguing' and drag balls, and turned these raucous celebrations into a powerful expression of fierce personal pride.
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- Film
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- African American gay men -- New York (State) -- New York, Gay culture -- New York (State) -- New York, Cross-dressers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social life and customs, Gay men -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social life and customs, Voguing (Dance) -- New York (State) -- New York, Drag balls -- New York (State) -- New York, New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs, and Documentary films
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- ISBN: 0788861492, ISBN: 9780788861499, PUBNUM: 41451, and OCLC: (OCoLC)61193692