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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Black Queer"”.
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Black, Queer, and Blessed: Toward a Biblically Based Black, Queer Narrative of Leadership
… century. It traces the two primary models of Black religious leadership that emerged from White, cis, benevolent and dominating models of patriarchy. This task is accomplished primarily through a survey of the ministries of Adam Clayton Powell Sr. and Jr. (1908-1970) and their consecutive …
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Fierce: Black Queer Literacies of Survival
<p>Influenced by Black feminist and queer scholars, my dissertation focuses on how Black and queer people have made interventions through language and performance to survive larger racist and homophobic forces. Despite critical scholarship on the literacies of both Black and queer communities, …
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When they see us: Black queer narratives from the academy
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2023-12-01
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At the margins of intersecting identities: What does it mean to be a Black queer woman?
… Analysis (IPA) and used frameworks of Queer Theory and intersectionality to study the experience of having multiple marginalized identities (i.e., racial, sexual, and gender identities), in addition to the meaning that individuals derive from the experience of their identity. Eight …
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The Race for Privilege in Blackness: Transformative Leadership in Traversing Space in Search of Black Queer Cool
… of critical confrontations in predominantly Black secondary schools and historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) exposed LGBTQ youth of color consequently unprepared and obstructed from college access. Parallel instances of critical confrontations in predominantly Black secondary …
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Self-Representation of Black Queer Athletes in the WNBA: Resistance to Misogynoir and Heteronormativity in Women's Basketball
… (mis)representations and self-representations of Black queer women athletes in the WNBA. WNBA players have found paths of resistance and self-representation through social media and their relationships with individual journalists in response to continuous misogynoir, colorism, and …
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Staging [in]visible subjects: Blackqueer bodies, social death and performance
Staging [In]visible Subjects: BlackQueer Bodies, Social Death and Performance is an examination of the ways in which death and violence operate within the lives of black/queer youth. Black/queer youth experience marginalization across several dimensions of difference (i.e. race, class, sexuality, …
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Intentional Mothering: A Black Feminist-Informed Thematic Analysis of How Black Queer Mothers Engage in Motherwork, Navigate Informal Support, and Access Community Resources
… research has focused narrowly on one domain of queer motherhood, lesbian mothers' experience of mothering (Bible et al., 2018) and centered on the experiences of White, middle-class, cisgender mothers (Brainer et al., 2020; Manley and Ross, 2020; Reczek, 2020). The interlocking nature of …
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Big Backed Black Femme Erotics
Big Backed Black Femme Erotics is a genre study of literary and real life spaces where queer Black femme sexuality is expressed. The dissertation focuses on Audre Lorde’s theories of the erotic and, at moments, how they are modified by the fat femme. Applying Lorde’s erotic to Black feminist …
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Umthonyama
Umthonyama explores the politics of black queer visibility and contested belonging within the evolving culture of amaXhosa people. Black queer performance practitioners, are practically and theoretically foregrounded in this thesis to demonstrate the sophisticated ways in which we become visible, …
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Making “Quare” Spaces: Re-membering Childhood as a Queer Practice of Indigenous African Place-making
Queers of colour are in real and constant danger as they are not seen to belong neatly to either Western queer culture (due to their blackness) or African culture (due to their queerness). This discursive violence legitimizes actual violence on black queer bodies. This research project uses …
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Unmaking him : Lee Daniels' Empire and the potential black masculine
… Lyon. In examining this relationship, I employ black feminist and black queer theory to interrogate the ways in which Lee Daniels’ particular representation lends to an expansion of current notions of black masculinity within the quotidian. I argue that through re-representing the ways in which …
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Black LGBTQ+ Students’ Perceptions of Belonging: Resource Centers, Relationships, and Intersectionality on College Campuses
… focuses on the lives and perspectives of Black Queer and Transgender college students. This dissertation shows how these collegians navigate identity politics, resource centers, and seek out belonging on their campus. The findings hone in on four broader themes: (a) relationships with …
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Fostering Queer Consciousness: Using Performative Art as an Activism Tool to Talk about the LGBTQ+ Community in the State of Bahia, Brazil
… in Brazil has attracted the attention of queer artists activists since violence against LGBTQI+ ranks the country as one of the most dangerous places for this community. This study examined how Black gay men have used performative art as activism to foster queer consciousness in the state …
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(Re)storing and (Re)storying Men with Broken Wrists: Using Intsomi as Critical Fabulation to Refute the Notion of Queerness as un-African
… is often grounded in the perceived absence of queer people of colour from the “archive” of black African (hi)stories that shape our collective understandings of who is and who is not properly “African”. Given that what we do know of how gender is conceived among African societies comes to us …
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(Re)storing and (Re)storying men with broken wrists: using intsomi as critical fabulation to refute the notion of queerness as un-African
… is often grounded in the perceived absence of queer people of colour from the “archive” of black African (hi)stories that shape our collective understandings of who is and who is not properly “African”. Given that what we do know of how gender is conceived among African societies comes to us …
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Hull
… un-shakable hyper corporeality of a body both Black and woman, and the social and spiritual liminality of Black womanhood. This collection is centered around a contemporary Black, queer, femme voice, and moves beyond the deeply familiar, beyond any implied monolith of definitive Blackness. …
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Home
… out in the first place. Possessing the voices of queer, Black women, I display one possible outlook on the queer experience. “Home” broadens the narrative of young Black girls lived realities in America. “Home” depicts the realities of what it means to be young, Black, queer women in a world …
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Brother Outsider: Queered Belonging and Kinships in African American Men’s Literature, 1953-1971
<p><em>Brother Outsider: Queered Belonging and Kinships in African American Men’s Literature, 1953-1971</em> builds on the work of women-of-color feminists since the late 1960s and queer-of-color critique in the works of José Esteban Muñoz, Robert Reid-Pharr, Roderic Ferguson, and Nadia Ellis, in …
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Atlas: a collection of poems on moving to the Wild West
… poems, read as snapshots on life for a young, black, queer, male moving from small town Applalachia to what seemed like an open and lawless western city near the Rockies; a journey of finding self, and of home.</p> <p>Atlas is a collection that pushes phonic elements to story telling, captures …
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