Stop Playing (In My) Black Face: The Curious Case of Gov. Northam

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02/03/19 • 25 min

A BlaQueer of Left "hot take" on the "black face" mess surrounding Virginia Governor Ralph Northam. Common talk with a deep BlaQueer, Black Feminist, Historicizing, Critical Race, Political analysis.

A BlaQueer of Left "hot take" on the "black face" mess surrounding Virginia Governor Ralph Northam. Common talk with a deep BlaQueer, Black Feminist, Historicizing, Critical Race, Political analysis.

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Ep 2: Poems of Resistance, Essex Hemphill, 21 Savage, BlaQueerness and Policing As Racial-Sexual Terror

This episode is a poetic meditation on the week's events in Black and BlaQueer life; beginning with readings of historic Black poems. Here, we address the racial-sexual politics of policing as anti-Black violence; anti-immigration practices as afterlives of slavery; and Blackness and Queerness as inseperable, co-constituitive realities in BlaQueer life.

Poems: Essex Hemphill (Occupied Territories), Margaret Walker (For My People), Gwendolyn Brooks (We Real Cool), Lucille Clifton (won't you celebrate with me)

Topics: BlaQueerness, Liam Neeson and black fungibility; Jussie Smollet and BlaQueer testimony, racial-sexual terror; 21 Savage and anti-Black policing/unbelonging; whiteness as property and power to oppress.