#rinaldowalcott

[openlyandfreely]

Not just in the White Settler States, but throughout the Black world the very possibility of Black citizenship has been gutted. The U.S. and Canada can only include Black people if they perpetuate the very violence that still structures their past exclusion.” Introduction

[qswg]

"But as we know, the diaspora by its very nature, its circumstances, is queer. What do I mean by this? I mean that the territories and perambulations of diaspora circuits, identifications, and desires are queer in their making and their expressions."

Rinaldo Walcott (@blacklikewho). From “Outside in Black Studies: Reading from a Queer Place in the Diaspora.” In Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology, edited by Johnson, E. Patrick and Mae G. Henderson, 90-106. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005, 97.

[demonicground]

Rinaldo Walcott, "Reconstructing Manhood."  See also:  Rinaldo Walcott, "Reconstructing Manhood; Or, the Drag of Black Masculinity," in Small Axe, 13:1 (2009):  75-89.