I'm super excited that we're finally launching the James Baldwin Society of NCCU! 25 students signed up over the course of two days. Students are still interested in J. Baldwin's legacy and that gets me pumped more than anything! We've crafted an expansive vision that allows for inter-institutional collaborations and community service while building Baldwin … Continue reading It’s Finally Happening!!!
If you're like me, most often you are your harshest critic. You leave the classroom reflecting on the experience of learning you just shared with your students. On the way back to the office, you run through all of the things you think you could have done different (which translates in your head to better). … Continue reading The Momentum of a Moment…
We had toiled over his missing assignments for several weeks with very little progress. Every conversation concluded with promises that never came to fruition, but I was being extra patient because I could see that he was earnestly trying and really wanted to get the work done. Something was happening, however, that just wouldn't allow … Continue reading Dear (Depressed) Black Boy…
(From forthcoming collection entitled: Outside of Honor: Black Motherverse & Queer BlackBoySpeak when you love a man sometimes you love everything he ain’t you put the pieces together in your head as if a master-builder skilled in the art of refining fleshyou bruise your knuckleson the hard wood of his determination and scrape your legs on what he dreams about without … Continue reading When You Love A Man
Outside of Honor: Black Motherverse & Queer BlackBoySpeak is a poetic memoir and meditation on the primacy of the black feminine in African-American life. It considers the centrality of the black feminine to black belonging, home, and healing. Recounting my family history and what I know of the lived experiences of my three "mothers" (aka, … Continue reading COMING SOON!
Photo Credit: Robert Mapplethorpe "Masculinity" Moore, E. Al-Tariq. “Masculinity.” Ralph Ellison In Context, Cambridge UP, Cambridge, UK, 2021, pp. 147–156. Scholarship on Invisible Man has long acknowledged the importance of putting Ralph Ellison’s letters, speeches, and essays in conversation with the novel in order to fully understand its politics on race, gender, and sexuality. These constructs … Continue reading MASCULINITY
"In the end, the goal is retention, for we can only instruct and shape the students who feel safe and supported enough to stay." There's no better feeling than seeing students who struggled a semester before tough it out and return! I often think "College Professor" is such an inadequate term for the work we … Continue reading The Return…
A few days ago, I happened to mention that in my younger years I might have been categorized as a "church kid" while teaching. My class was discussing the impact of homophobia, stereotypes, and racialized perceptions of queer sexuality on African American parental expectations of teacher interactions with students in primary and secondary education settings. … Continue reading On Reciprocity…
"Queer, My Dear" is a tribute performance that honors the embodied queer multivalence of Marvin Gaye, Luther Vandross, Prince, and Tevin Campbell. Highlighting their private truths, artistic performances, and spectrums of masculinity, this series of poems both grieves and celebrates the queerness that defied verbal expression and that which made its way into the coded … Continue reading “QUEER, MY DEAR”
https://videopress.com/v/q3bQfMXY?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true So, occasionally I dabble in music. I'd definitely like to do more of this, but for now it's a bit of a "side-hustle." I'm not sure how to explain "Home" except as a musical reclamation of body and self; an acknowledgment that the "unhomed" queer body requires many bold eviction and revisitation of its … Continue reading “HOME”
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