No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies
E. Patrick Johnson is Carlos Montezuma Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University, the coeditor of Blacktino Queer Performance and Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology, and the author of Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity, all also published by Duke University Press.
Let’s Play: Exploring Cinematic Black Lesbian Fantasy, Pleasure, and Pain
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Published:September 2016
Jennifer DeClue takes up Juana Maria Rodriguez’s challenge to embrace the pleasure of “untamed erotics” and not shy away from exploring the materiality of sexuality and the problematics of sex play and fantasy among racialized subjectivities. In so doing, DeClue examines three films of black lesbian erotica that explore sexual domination and submission, as well as pleasure and pain, as ecstatic modes that can release the trauma of sexual violence and racial oppression. Against the haunting presence of both historic and personal traumas that complicate sex, fantasy, and power play within the black lesbian community, DeClue’s attention to these very...
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