... In this chapter, Jennifer DeVere Brody situates E. Patrick Johnson’s play Strange Fruit within a critical genealogy of black gay image-making. Brody asserts that Johnson’s artistic work, along with that of other black queer men, facilitated the emergence of black queer studies. Brody...

... In this chapter, Bernadette Marie Calafell interviews Strange Fruit creator E. Patrick Johnson. Johnson opens the interview by sharing that he wanted Strange Fruit to be an homage to the women in his family and black feminists, to whom he credits his own awakening about gender and sexuality...

... E. Patrick Johnson details the rich blossoming of black queer studies since the 2005 release of the field-defining anthology Black Queer Studies. Discussing its genealogy, Johnson explains the title of No Tea, No Shade that stems from contemporary black vernacular and black queer popular...