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axmed's review
emotional
funny
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
All of this speaking out loud and directly to or about the living and our dead is an attempt at a live remix of a conversation in Black gay space time: here and there, then and now. Savoring the sweetnesses of this moment precisely because we know the bitterness too well. We know how easily any of us (all of us) can slip into the ether. As the author, I want to reconstitute and re-narrate in languages and styles that reflect how we do (at least how I understand and do how
we do)
It is heard/read best if you imagine
talking with a passionate friend from Southeast Queens who went to an hbcu
as the sort of notsoraw material they like to turn into leaders and
Race Men. Imagine that he had an Afrocentric awakening followed quickly by
a gay awakening, the compounded complexity of which prompted this
author, your passionate friend, to drop out of school to be professionally
Black and gay and political (which also meant catering and serving and being
fired from a lot of restaurants).
"If I have not cited bell hooks in every chapter, it is only because I have already assimilated so much of her work in my own thinking. Thank you to her for exemplifying the most eminently teachable Black critical cultural studies."
we do)
It is heard/read best if you imagine
talking with a passionate friend from Southeast Queens who went to an hbcu
as the sort of notsoraw material they like to turn into leaders and
Race Men. Imagine that he had an Afrocentric awakening followed quickly by
a gay awakening, the compounded complexity of which prompted this
author, your passionate friend, to drop out of school to be professionally
Black and gay and political (which also meant catering and serving and being
fired from a lot of restaurants).
"If I have not cited bell hooks in every chapter, it is only because I have already assimilated so much of her work in my own thinking. Thank you to her for exemplifying the most eminently teachable Black critical cultural studies."
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