A01=GerShun Avilez
Afro-Pessimism
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Black diaspora
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Cheryl Clarke
Civil Rights Act of 1964
contingency
cool pose
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counter-institutions
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desire
diagnosis
Dionne Brand
documentary poetics
embodied presence
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feminist ethnography
fugitivity
gender nonconformity
HIVAIDS
hospitals
hypervisibility
immigration
injury
interiority
Jackie Kay
K. Sello Duiker
Language_English
Makeda Silvera
marginalization
masculinity
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Pat Parker
photography
politics of scale
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prisons
privacy
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queer freedom
rape
redress
same-sex desire
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South Africa
spatial justice
streets
surveillance
world-making
Zanele Muholi
Product details
- ISBN 9780252085284
- Weight: 313g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 20 Oct 2020
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Whether engaged in same-sex desire or gender nonconformity, black queer individuals live with being perceived as a threat while simultaneously being subjected to the threat of physical, psychological, and socioeconomical injury. Attending to and challenging threats has become a defining element in queer black artists' work throughout the black diaspora. GerShun Avilez analyzes the work of diasporic artists who, denied government protections, have used art to create spaces for justice. He first focuses on how the state seeks to inhibit the movement of black queer bodies through public spaces, whether on the street or across borders. From there, he pivots to institutional spaces—specifically prisons and hospitals—and the ways such places seek to expose queer bodies in order to control them. Throughout, he reveals how desire and art open routes to black queer freedom when policy, the law, racism, and homophobia threaten physical safety, civil rights, and social mobility.
GerShun Avilez is an associate professor of English at the University of Maryland. He is the author of Radical Aesthetics and Modern Black Nationalism.
