“HAPPY” (Ode to Queer Freedom)
Tag: Sexuality
BEEN BLACK
Class Discussion: Essex Hemphill’s “Heavy Breathing”
“Just Between Us” (Black LGBT Documentary)
Essex Hemphill: From The Anacostia to The Potomac
Class Discussion: Essex Hemphill, “Heavy Breathing”
It’s Finally Happening!!!
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!!!
“QUEER, MY DEAR”
"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”
“HOME”
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”
“Breaking Up With My Mother’s Dreams”
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.
“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
altariqmoore.com 
