... retells stories of the Sufi saint, Madho Lal Hussain (d. 1599), who fell in love with a Brahmin boy, Madho. It does not find in their lifelong relationship signs of a more permissive time. Instead, the chapter recovers the reproach Shah Hussain courted by refusing to conform to the social and gender...

...Loving Blackness ...

... ruling in Loving v. Virginia on antimiscegenation law. It argues that Indigenous critiques of colonialism challenge social normativities in ways that are deeply misunderstood—or dismissed—by queer anti-normativity efforts as identity politics at its worst. This inadvertently refutes an Indigenous...

... In this chapter, Omi Osun Joni L. Jones examines Pamela Booker’s Seens from the Unexpectedness of Love . She considers the ways in which Booker uses the trope of love and experiments with dramatic form to resist oppressive forms. Though Jones ultimately argues that queerness rather than race...