“Come Out the Wilderness”

"Come Out the Wilderness" is a full-length performance poem that situates "queer" sexuality in the history of American slavery. The performance, as it is here presented, is a work in progress; I am currently expanding and revising its story. This particular recording was done one week after an intensive writing session in which I devoted … Continue reading “Come Out the Wilderness”

Incidents in the Life of an Unholy “Black-ish” Queer Boy

(Previously published at New Black Man in Exile ) “To be androgynous, Webster’s informs us, is to have both male and female characteristics. This means that there is a man in every woman and a woman in every man.” --James Baldwin, “Here Be Dragons” (1985) “The case of James Baldwin aside for a moment, it seems that … Continue reading Incidents in the Life of an Unholy “Black-ish” Queer Boy