The Lonely Letters
The Lonely Letters In The Lonely Letters, A tells Moth: "Writing about and thinking with joy is what sustains me, daily. I do not write about joy primarily because I always have it. It nourishes me.…
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The Lonely Letters
In The Lonely Letters, A tells Moth: "Writing about and thinking with joy is what sustains me, daily. I do not write about joy primarily because I always have it. It nourishes me.
The Lonely Letters is an epistolary blackqueer critique of the normative world in which Ashon T. I write about joy, Black joy, because I want to generate it, I want it to emerge, I want to participate in its constant unfolding." But alongside joy, A admits to Moth, come loneliness, exclusion, and unfulfilled desire. Crawley--writing as A--meditates on the interrelation of blackqueer life, sounds of the Black church, theology, mysticism, and love.
Throughout his letters, A explores blackness and queerness in the musical and embodied experience of Blackpentecostal spaces and the potential for platonic and erotic connection in a world that conspires against blackqueer life. Both a rigorous study and