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...Modern Respectability and Antinomian Desire ...

... interprets her work with the knowledge that black women have always been perceived as innately masculine through competing discourses of white racism and black respectability politics. He reads Bentley’s cross-dressing and vocal play as representative of a “black sissy” aesthetic that makes legible...

... Kaila Aida Story examines the consequences of presenting identity as an “either/or” or “and/or” dichotomy through the visual and rhetorical strategies of the “return to marriage and respectability” platforms of black heteronormativity and the whitening and sanitizing platforms of the marriage...

... and risks creating new hierarchies and regimes of criminalization. Iterations of good porn are often based on aesthetic taste, concerned with respectability, and distance themselves from “mainstream porn.” The project of identifying good porn lends itself to diversity washing with a focus on visibility over...

...Preface<subtitle>Respect and Reverence</subtitle> ...