https://videopress.com/v/Wo4ORJ5w?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true "BUWMMD" is from my forthcoming volume of poetry entitled Outside of Honor: Black Motherverse & Queer BlackBoySpeak.
Author: Dr. Al-Tariq Moore
“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”
“Sankofa Song”
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

