Black Queer Freedom
Black Queer Freedom 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…
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Black Queer Freedom
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 socioeconomical injury. GerShun Avilez analyzes the work of diasporic artists who, denied government protections, have used art to create spaces for justice. Attending to and challenging threats has become a defining element in queer black artists' work throughout the black diaspora.
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. 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. Throughout, he reveals how desire and art open routes to black queer freedom when policy, the law,
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