Ashon Crawley

Ashon Crawley, an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia, is author of Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility (Fordham University Press), an investigation of aesthetics and performance as modes of collective, social imagination and, forthcoming with Duke University Press, The Lonely Letters, an exploration of the interrelation of blackness, mysticism, quantum mechanics and love. All his work is about otherwise possibility.

Features

Ghosts

By Ashon CrawleyMay 29, 2018

To tell the stories of a blackqueer heartbreak and forestalled nostalgia provoked by the Disney Channel is to draw energy from a ghosting of severed connections, an otherwise movement of unnamed but present intimacies

Features

Blackpentecostal Breath

By Ashon CrawleyJuly 19, 2017

An excerpt from Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility, which was published by Fordham University Press in October 2016.

Essays & Reviews

Otherwise Movements

By Ashon CrawleyJanuary 19, 2015

Generalized unthought movement is about articulating a relation of difference.