Episode 5 and 6 of Pose form a mini-arc that focuses on death and home. In episode 5, Blanca’s bio-mother dies and in episode 6,…

KBURD: Short for "K but u rong doe". Used when you know arguing is pointless but you need them to know they're still wrong. —Urban…

Of the many ways to narrate the emergence of queer studies, I most like Tim Dean’s claim that Gayle Rubin’s “Thinking Sex: Notes for a…

On Twitter, Mariame Kaba posts a quotation from Elizabeth Povinelli: “Not this” makes a difference even if it does not immediately produce a propositional otherwise.…

On 10 June 2018, the 13-member team of Enkare Review, a literary journal, published a statement detailing a pattern of patriarchal abuse of power by…

Now we think as we fuck this nut might kill us. —Essex Hemphill, "Now We Think" For a range of reasons—taste, aptitude, exposure, politics—my academic…

I am uninterested in investigating, documenting, theorizing, and inhabiting my own negation—black negation.

What is "the work"?

The word “survival” felt bone-deep familiar when I encountered it in Audre Lorde’s writing

"What is the word for keeping and putting breath back in the body?" - Christina Sharpe

"It is within our differences that we are both most powerful and most vulnerable"--Audre Lorde

“black . . . gay” attempts to name and inhabit the possibilities of the ellipses

something like an introduction: This record is incomplete. It is missing deleted emails that shaped these ideas; the bibliography of documents--academic articles, development plans (especially…

We shall not always mourn feels like an impossible promise—bloodwork.