BlaQueer of Left Podcast

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Tabias Olajuawon, JD/ABD is an author, poet, speaker and interdisciplinary scholar who studies race and African American culture using the tools provided by various disciplines including: law, literary and cultural studies, music, and the social sciences. He has published numerous blogs and articles…

Tabias Olajuawon Wilson


    • Mar 8, 2019 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 33m AVG DURATION
    • 5 EPISODES


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    Brother To Brother: On BlaQueer Friendships, Love Practices and the Costs of Wholeness

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2019 57:40


    In this live-streamed episode, we are joined by my best friend Taurean; while we recount and explore the important lessons we've learned about love and life, through our BlaQueer bond. This episode focus on BlaQueer friendships, relationships, life at HBCUs & PWIs, workplace issues, belonging, mental health and the practice of what I've called, "critical love ethics."

    Ep 4: BlaQueer Reflections, This Ain't About Jussie

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 22, 2019 16:03


    This mini episode is a brief reflection on BlaQueer life; and how BlaQueer people are rendered especially unbelievable, illegible and without credibility. It is a meditative and poetic reflection on the BlaQueer mystique.

    Ep 3: How TF Do We Choose A Candidate?!

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 19, 2019 29:13


    This episode--also recorded on facebook--analyzes a the current democratic field from a Black and BlaQueer gaze, while centering the Black poor. The question simple, yet hard to answer, "how tf do we choose a candidate?!"

    Ep 2: Poems of Resistance, Essex Hemphill, 21 Savage, BlaQueerness and Policing As Racial-Sexual Terror

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2019 39:41


    This episode is a poetic meditation on the week's events in Black and BlaQueer life; beginning with readings of historic Black poems. Here, we address the racial-sexual politics of policing as anti-Black violence; anti-immigration practices as afterlives of slavery; and Blackness and Queerness as inseperable, co-constituitive realities in BlaQueer life.

    Stop Playing (In My) Black Face: The Curious Case of Gov. Northam

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2019 25:21


    A BlaQueer of Left "hot take" on the "black face" mess surrounding Virginia Governor Ralph Northam. Common talk with a deep BlaQueer, Black Feminist, Historicizing, Critical Race, Political analysis.

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