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Black Queer Freedom:

Spaces of Injury and Paths of Desire
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Whether engaged in same-sex desire or gender nonconformity, black queer individuals live with being perceived as a threat while simultaneously being subjected to the threat of physical, psychological, and socioeconomical injury. Attending to and challenging threats has become a defining element in queer black artists’ work throughout the black diaspora. GerShun Avilez analyzes the work of diasporic artists who, denied government protections, have used art to create spaces for justice. He first focuses on how the state seeks to inhibit the movement of black queer bodies through public spaces, whether on the street or across borders. From there, he pivots to institutional spaces--specifically prisons and hospitals--and the ways such places seek to expose queer bodies in order to control them. Throughout, he reveals how desire and art open routes to black queer freedom when policy, the law, racism, and homophobia threaten physical safety, civil rights, and social mobility.
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Freedom in Restriction

Part One. Threatened Bodies in Motion

Chapter 1. Movement in Black: Queer Bodies and the Desire for Spatial Justice

Chapter 2. Geographies of Mobility: Migratory Subjects and the Uncertainty of Itineracy

Part Two. Bodies in Spaces of Injury

Chapter 3. Uneven Vulnerability: Queer Hypervisibility and Spaces of Imprisonment

Chapter 4. The Shadow of Institutions: Medical Diagnosis and the Elusive Queer Body

Conclusion: Lives of Constraint, Paths to Freedom

Notes

Index

"With pristine writing and bold thinking about queer desire, gender, and spatial justice, Avilez's Black Queer Freedom is a timely addition to the growing body of scholarship on black vulnerability, trauma, and queerness. Avilez dynamically illustrates how gender non-conforming artists are important to challenging the boundaries of black freedom."
--LaMonda Horton-Stallings, author of Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures
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