...Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman Building on José Esteban Muñoz’s theorization of ecstasy as a site of queer of color desire, relational practice, and utopic possibility, this essay conceptualizes what I call the black ecstatic as a hermeneutic for analyzing post–civil rights black queer poetics. My...

... feminist approach to contending with representations of black women’s ecstatic corporeality. Nash’s treatment of black women’s participation in hard-­core pornography moves black feminism beyond the wound into the domain of ecstasy. Jennifer DeClue is assistant professor in the Program...

... as a process of interpretation that attends to ecstatic formulations of desire and that relies upon one finding one/self in others, much like J/e keeps Tu present despite her death. Both dialogues — theoretical and fictional — are adumbrated in the grammar of the French phrase tu me manques, “I miss...

..., including the ecstatic enthusiasms of the Shakers and Djuna Barnes's repurposing of Catholic sacraments, especially baptism and the Eucharist. As a group, the three monographs reveal how religion facilitates queer collective, social, and conceptual alternatives to those made available by the antisocial...

... science fiction in French and English. Seth Clark Silberman is a New York – based independent scholar, working on a forthcoming book, M/y Mother Tongue: Reading Queer Theory Ecstatically, and his first novel. His articles on black queer masculinity have appeared in Social Semiotics...

... to the Ojibwe reservation of Little No Horse on the Minnesota North Dakota border in the early twentieth century. Through Father Damien s embodied spirituality an ecstatic, nonbinary religious identity and experience Erdrich uses an Ojibwe- centered view of gen- der and spirituality to draw on suppressed...

... that is indebted to the histories of theorizing blackness and queerness, it is incumbent to attempt to attune oneself to the potential and actual vastness of being-with­ . Decolonizing the Non/Human Jinthana Haritaworn I am approaching the call in this special...

... of abjection. Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination . Scott Darieck . New York : New York University Press , 2010 . iv + 318 pp. Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism . Musser Amber Jamilla . New York : New York...

... 1987 ): 31 -70. Watney , Simon . Policing Desire: Pornography, AIDS, and the Media . Minneapolis: U of Minneapolis P, 1987 . Weeks , Jeffrey . “Post-Modern AIDS?” Ecstatic Antibodies: Resisting the AIDS Mythology . Ed. Tessa Boffin and Sunil Gupta. London: Rivers Oram, 1990 . 133 41...

..., 2004, 87 min. What happened after that remains a pitch-black void.  — Brian in Mysterious Skin The 2004 Toronto International Film Festival offered dramatic evidence of intergenerational sex in the cinema. Films such as Bad Education, The Heart Is Deceitful above All Things, Mysterious...

... Richard . Miller-Young Mireille . 2014 . A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . MisBehavin' . 1978 . Directed by Vincent Chuck . Muñoz José Esteban . 1999 . Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance...

... and the Politics of Modern India . Berkeley : University of California Press . Ramberg Lucinda . 2014 . Given to the Goddess: South Indian Devadasis and the Sexuality of Religion . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . ———. 2009 . “Magical Hair as Dirt: Ecstatic Bodies and Postcolonial Reform...

...) that sanctions her eviction. In this act of dreaming—in those ecstatic interjections of “hoo, hoo” that both locate and cut through the moment of eviction—Douglas imagines an unspoken world of possibilities for Black and poor women's embodiments, which the eviction crushes by producing her body as unprotected...

... in the anglophone Caribbean — especially among black men, a significant proportion of whom self-­identify as “gay” — is that national, regional, and international public health officials have for some time now also been insist- ing on this very recognition.3 In the public health discourses circulating through...

...’ soul tune “I’m Ready for Love.” Courtesy of the New American Cinema Group, Inc./Film-Makers’­ Cooperative director Rodríguez-­Soltero himself), dressed in black from head to toe like a living...

... and liberal sexual mores were at the heart of bourgeois and elite culture. In 1902 Mount Pelée, the volcano that sits just above the city, erupted—killing Saint-Pierre's population of over thirty thousand within five seconds. Today, the black, volcanic sand beaches that line the coast remind visitors to Saint...

... might give us a cue and clue regarding a way of life that does not take racialization and its exclusions as the grounds for thought. SUSCEPTIBILITY Ashon Crawley 0 And black life is circum- sacred, it is a kind of life that is antagonistic to the division between sacred and secular, holy and profane...

... formation, keeping a measured distance apart. Each holds a placard. The lone woman, dressed in sleeveless blouse, pleated skirt, and black pumps, carries a handbag in the crook of her elbow. She may well be wearing pantyhose.20 The men behind her include a priest sporting a wool suit...

...: Autobiography and History in Two Black Women's Cookbooks .” Feminist Studies 25 , no. 2 : 449 – 69 . 4. It's worth noting that Johnson ( 2001 : 18) also focuses on food—specifically, the role played by gumbo in Marlon Riggs's documentary Black Is . . . Black Ain't —as an organizing motif...

... and adults. The depradations of sterilization, castration, hysterectomy, clitoridectomy, and electroshock may be the most arrest- ing consequences of this ignoble history, but they are hardly the most long-lived. Rather, the endless recurrence of biologism; the hysterical fear of brown, black...