Terrains of Intimacy (excerpt)

We meet across old and new diasporas, where the newer stories of intimacies forged away from the places we call home interrupt the failed and damaged intimacies of the places that claim us.

Re-thinking “African Homophobia”

Prison narratives are central to tracking modern genealogies of sexuality in Africa.

scars, not wounds

Scars form quickly when you are surrounded by love.

Aesthetics & Theory across Africa & Afro-Diaspora

"From at least the late nineteenth century, African and Afro-diasporic intellectuals pursued a double strategy of writing and publishing in specific disciplines while also creating aesthetic works."

Reflection

Binyavanga harmed people. Some of them I knew, most I didn’t.

after Rona

We do not know when or if Rona will leave or take us with it.

& Other Pleasures

Although we seek escape, our goal cannot be to remain fugitives.

Tiffany Lethabo King, The Black Shoals*

ritual encounters—of movement building, of academic speculation—move through this work, and we are invited to witness and participate

Familiar Ground

Race and ethnicity buttress each other. Both are fictions with real effects, tied to how we experience ourselves as human.

UNK Male

I want something impossible from Pose: a show crafted from impossible fractures and unbearable traumas, a show we—I—might not survive.