Re-covering Maât

The conclusion connects signposts on the journey through which Black, Quare, and Then to Where has passed. Through a reminder of the lived gender and sexual fluidities of ancient Egypt and a parallel recollection of Cheikh Anta Diop's sovereign experience and an aspect of the author's personal narrative, two pillars of this project remain: the fact of Black sexual diversity and the thirst for justice. Maâtian justice is stealthy. However, we know some of what Maât does. She flies. She jumps—and entangles. She dances—and shouts. She puzzles. She be's—and codes. She imagines—and we imagine her. Black sexualities, like the delta of the Nile River, offer a confluence of possibilities. Whether we navigate sexually, in the heterexpectations of marriage, in homosexualities, in interracialities, or in pornographies, we live, move, and have our being between Black and quare—and wherever they go—with Maât.