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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."
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.
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?!"
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.
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.
Our guest this week is trailblazer and representation activist Michón Neal. In Michón’s own words ze is “ an autistic BlaQueer impossible alien Othergender Dragon what tattoos trees with the queerest most sinister ink and hurts all over, all the time.” Michón shared on a wide range of personal topics with me; we talked about hir projects in the Metanoiac portal, Cuil Press and the importance of media representation, as well as the imagination and how it ties into trauma. Michón is a Public Speaker and Accountability Counselor at Postmodern Woman, Sensitivity Editor and Founder at Cuil Press, and Trauma-informed Domme, Builder of Communities of Care and Educator at The Metanoiac Portal. You can follow Michón via hir website or listen to hir podcast.
It's been a minute! We have (finally) graduated from law school, and bar prep is in full swing. Send prayers!This week, we are joined by Tabias Olajuawon-Wilson, a BlaQueer author, lawyer, and PhD student at UT Austin. Tabias discusses the origins of BlaQueerness, shares experiences from childhood and law school, and gives a teaser for his forthcoming book, the Funk of Blackness.Keep up with Tabias's work: @BlaQueerFlow | tabiasolajuawon.com.Purchase Tabias's book, Godless Circumcisions, on Amazon!Follow the team on social media! @HarvardBLSA @negroesquire @lovexbriana
This week we talk with Tabais Olajuawon about his recent essay, "We Are Not Yours: I’m tired of white women’s racial-sexual terrorism of my BlaQueer body" (https://blackyouthproject.com/im-tired-of-white-womens-racial-sexual-terrorism-of-my-blaqueer/) And we meet Phillipe Cunningham, a special education teacher and black trans man who was just elected to the city council in Minneapolis. (https://www.advocate.com/politics/2017/11/08/trans-man-has-also-been-elected-minneapolis-city-council)