Notes from an Afro-Genderqueer volume 1

Volume 1 of the brown, genderqueer anthology with blogs, essays, and articles addressing intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and ability. The book is an on-going dialogue on simultaneity of oppression,  art and artivism, anti-racist organizing, organizing within queer and queer people of color (QPOC)/people of color (POC) communities, and much much more.

Table of Contents

Salutations

Identity

Black Woman? Black Man? Neither or Both? Living on the Outside

Ain't I a Man? I mean, I AM a man: My take on 2 Glenn Ligon: America pieces

Thoughts on Being Radical, Queer, and Of Color and other musings

Trans Rights of Passage

The New Masculinity- Redefining ourselves, emerging from our cocoons

Our POC Reclamation and Retrieval in the Arts (but don't call it a Renaissance)…

Genderqueer Job Applicants or Cross Dressing for a Career

(UN)Queer for the Holidays

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Love

Poem: New Eyes

The Challenges of Genderqueer Love

Comets and Cobwebs

Queer relationships...how bout 'em?

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Organizing

Poem: What is Radical?

Radicalism- is it sustainable?

Oppression and Organizing Against Obliviousness

LGBT community vs. the larger Queer community. Irreconcilable differences?

(in)justice and the death penalty or Kaput with Capital Punishment

Privilege and protest

Occupy Oakland

Only tell me of the possibilities, please

The Master’s Tools

Diversifying the Stacks (book shelves that is)

On mentoring and passing the torch

On Being Bilingual

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Education

Poem: Soothsayer Soil

Throwing Stones at the windows of the Ivory Tower (and bringing knowledge to the People for $Free.99

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Healing Ourselves

Poem: Blanketed: A poem about my Heritage

Discovering our ability to Heal Ourselves after Invisibility, Voicelessness or Confrontation with the Medical Establishment (and in our Lives, in general)

Poem: Superhero

Poem: Untitled/Unfinished

Silencing and Voicelessness- a QPOC, limited ability/chronically ill perspective