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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 28–43.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Jasmine A. Moore Abstract This annotated playlist follows Missy Elliott's musical cinema. Paying particular attention to the use of speculative tropes, it argues that Elliott's work draws on Black feminist aesthetics to paint paths through memory, nostalgia, sexual autonomy, and spiritual rebellion...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (1): 44–65.
Published: 01 April 2024
... emphasizes the historic and global magnitude of queer Black diasporic dislocation and humanlessness. Ultimately, this essay outlines how the convergence of Black and Asian forms in Moonlight disrupts white, liberal, humanist scripts on racial, gendered, and sexual formation. [email protected]...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 62–85.
Published: 01 October 2022
.... John Crow's Devil and The Book of Night Women both end shortly after an apocalyptic event in which a community has laid bare all the horrific hypocrisies that belie essentialized notions of raced and sexualized being, effectively reaching the end of itself. As I have suggested elsewhere, we might...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (2): 136–155.
Published: 01 October 2024
... that “issues of reproductive freedom, criminalization of sex practices, HIV/AIDS, partner rights and marriage equality, and transgender rights reveal how southern states have entered into another era of reconstruction centered on sexuality and gender.” 3 Although Stallings and scholars such as Lindsey...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 16–35.
Published: 01 October 2022
... the ocean floor, there is something necromantic about the dark shore for Chiron that allows him to interface with his sexual desires outside the bounds of orientation or representation (as constant and unnegotiable). This dark and terraqueous nowhere creates a necromantic plane on which death, eros...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 4–24.
Published: 01 April 2023
..., and the fervent social media usage by fan “armies” in response to music releases, and especially the ways in which, in these dynamics, revisions of “the digital divide” and sexual politics intersect precisely both in terms of sound and image in digital media and in terms of historically reshaped audiovisual...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (2): 92–107.
Published: 01 October 2024
... Drop Rule: note the “hekata” and “tria mulattin” designations and suggestive accountings of Morphy's blood. These approximations of difference allow it to be “counted differently.” 25 Smith commingles “objective” matters of chess, scenes of leisure, and sexual violence to recode chess history...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 130–139.
Published: 01 October 2022
...). Frame grabs. When Ganja is blood-sick in the aftermath of her new becoming, Hess brings a man, “a guest,” to dinner, essentially to be dinner. And as is typically the case with vampire narratives, biological hunger is overlaid with sexual desire. Gunn takes care to slowly build tension...
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liquid blackness (2025) 9 (1): 32–53.
Published: 01 April 2025
... and the Middle Passage are important determinants. But for me the Middle Passage—and the ideas of freedom it inaugurates as along with historically new concepts of and problems for the meaning and practice of sexual and other intimacies, domesticity, mobility, and more—can't be reduced to the singular instance...
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Does the Bronx Have a Taste for Monsters?: Nuyorican Gothic 's Playwright Desi Moreno-Penson
Open Access
liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 142–159.
Published: 01 October 2022
... and sets the play in the modern-day Bronx, where Laluz, a vengeful Santeria-practicing Puerto Rican woman, incurs the wrath of Oshun (the deity of love, female sexuality, and rivers), who places a curse on Laluz by making her lust after her teenage stepson, Sotero. This sets off a deadly chain reaction...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 46–59.
Published: 01 April 2023
... that Looking for Langston has a “promiscuous intertextuality.” 10 Through this queering of citation, Mercer shows how the film's “strategy of appropriation and rearticulation . . . [signifies] upon, and thus critique[s], the dominant regime of racial and sexual representation . . . without negating...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 100–107.
Published: 01 April 2023
...)configuration, does not “have to reify that category of ‘the Human’—trans/gender/sexual can break from the line of succession that consolidates species differences (predicated on racialization, as in ‘human/black’) with sexual difference.” So, one way to think about radical-radical thinking might be moving...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 110–124.
Published: 01 April 2023
..., and others, Alexander Ghedi Weheliye's work illuminates how the textures of Black life undergird Western formations of political subjecthood and modernity, whose grammars are premised on the abjecting of racialized subjects, namely Black subjects (and by extension all other gendered, sexualized...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 162–182.
Published: 01 October 2022
... heard you sort of unfurl this concept, it was in relation to Mati Diop's Atlantics (2019), where the ocean, which is coded as feminine, is swallowing the migrants. Yet there is also the fear of the monstrous feminine in these young black girls coming into sexual subjectivity ( fig. 2 ). Like, it's...
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Still Life
Open Access
liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 140–165.
Published: 01 April 2022
... Divided: Mourning the Death of Art History .” Gay and Lesbian Studies in Art History 27 , nos. 1/2 ( 1994 ): 141 – 59 . Davis Whitney . “ Winckelmann's ‘Homosexual’ Teleologies .” In Sexuality in Ancient Art: Near East, Egypt, Greece, and Italy , edited by Kampen Natalie , 262 – 76...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (2): 49–56.
Published: 01 October 2021
... and play that she exhibits throughout the novel—yet her resistance is best read in her deployment of the archive. Zu-Zu uses her desirability as a sexual object as a means to negotiate the threats posed by the young men in the novel—as modes of survival and pleasure. In the words of Aimee Meredith Cox, Zu...
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The Unfungible Flow of Liquid Blackness
Open Access
liquid blackness (2021) 5 (1): 27–36.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., “ Neger ,” and “ Nègre ,” depending on the nationality of the ship. As Fred Moten has pointed out in In the Break , that imposition of noise was an inaugural moment in “the animative materiality—the aesthetic, political, sexual, and racial force—of the ensemble of objects,” which he says might be called...
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Grief Aesthetics
Open Access
liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 86–95.
Published: 01 April 2022
... music, ongoing still. Our longing in want of something ineffable, sin remedio . There is no touch, no feeling, no reparation to ease the want in longing still. Waiting, a type of openness for something as it emerges from nothing. A feeling made not of sexuality as much as sensuality, not queerness...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (2): 88–99.
Published: 01 October 2023
... a vision of blackness that is sensual, perhaps sexual, and always available. 11 It is also in keeping with several other of Richards's works, such as Tar Baby vs. St. Sebastian and Winged —in which miniature P-51 Mustang fighters pierce the torso of a Tuskegee airman, cast from Richards's own body...
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Anna May Wong and the Color Image
Open Access
liquid blackness (2021) 5 (2): 59–73.
Published: 01 October 2021
... just in time for the Gus chase scene and its infamous deployment of racialized narrative in which Black sexual violence is imagined as an omnipresent threat to innocent white women. ...
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