Read
The Outwords Archive, website.
Zenele Muholi: Eye Me, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, exhibition. 18 January–11 August 2024.
Aidoo, Ama Ata. Our Sister Killjoy: or Reflections from a Black-eyed Squint. London: Longman, 1977.
Butler, Judith. Bodies That Matter On the Discursive Limits of Sex. Oxfordshire: Routledge, 2011.
Clifton, Lucille. “Won’t You Celebrate with Me.” Poetry Foundation. Originally published 1993.
Duffy, Carol Ann. “Standing Female Nude.” Genius. Originally published 1985.
Goodman, Elyssa. “The Wild Life and Untimely Death of Divine, Drag Queen of the Century.” Them, May 25, 2018.
Hartman, Saidiya. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval.
hooks, bell. “bell hooks: A Conversation with Laverne Cox.” Appalachian Heritage 43, no. 4 (Fall, 2015): 24-40,128.
Jordan, June. “Poem About My Rights.” Poetry Foundation. Originally published 1978.
Jordan, June. Some Of Us Did Not Die: Selected Essays: New and Selected Essays. London: Civitas Books, 2003.
Laing, Olivia. The Lonely City. London: Picador, 2016.
Lorde, Audre. “A Litany for Survival.” Poetry Foundation. Originally published 1978.
Lorde, Audre. “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power.” In Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, Crossing Press, 1984.
Meisler, Meryl. “Beautiful, Never-before-Seen Photos of New York City’s 1977 Pride March.” VICE, August 9, 2024.
Parker, Pat. “My Lover Is a Woman.” Academy of American Poets, June 5, 2024.
Snorton., Riley C. Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity. University of Minnesota Press, 2017.
Williams, Maxine and Pamela Newmanm, eds. Black Women’s Liberation. Pathfinder Press, 1970.
Whitman, Walt. “I Sing the Body Electric.” Poetry Foundation. Originally published 1855.
Listen
Ahnoni and the Johnsons. My Back Was a Bridge For You to Cross, Secretly Canadian, 2023.
Compilation/Various Artists. TRANSA, Red Hot Org, 2024.
Dr Thema Bryant-Davis. “Episode #150: Enhancing Self Compassion,” 15 May 2022, in The Homecoming Podcast with Dr Thema, podcast, 23:46.
Pat Parker. “For Straight Folks Who Don’t Mind Gays But Wish They Weren’t So Blatant.” Where Would I Be Without You: The Poetry of Pat Parker and Judy Grahn, Olivia Records, 1976, Side One, #8.
LOOK
“How Did Lucian Freud Present Queer and Marginalised Bodies?” The National Gallery, YouTube, November 4, 2022.
Addy, Campbell, dir. “Decolonize My Tongue with Love.” Filmed 2023. Vimeo, 03:19.
Addy, Campbell, dir. “Where you Gone Run To?” Released 2017. Vimeo, 00:55.
Babbit, Jamie, dir. I’m a Cheerleader. Released 1999.
Berler, Caroline, dir. Dykes, Camera, Action! Released 2018.
Dunye, Cheryl, dir. The Watermelon Woman. Released 1996.
Gluck, Medallion, 1936, oil on canvas. Christie’s Fine Art, Luxury and Antiques. Christie’s London, 9 November 1989 with Marlborough Fine Art, London, where purchased by the present owner (annonymous).
Kaige, Chen, dir. Farewell My Concubine. Released 1993.
Rees, Dee, dir. Pariah. Released 2011.
Schwarz, Jeffrey, dir. I Am Divine. Released 2013.
Torres, Felix Gonzalez, “Untitled” (Perfect Lovers), 1991, wall clocks and paint on wall. Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Gift of the Dannheisser Foundation, 177.1996.a-b.
The Queering the Collection series of highlights provides a platform to publish various interpretations of works in the collection that disrupt the traditional production of art canons.
Akosua Dufie Adasi is a PhD candidate in the department of Art History and Art Conservation at Queen’s University. Her work on the multiplicity of the Black and oppositional gazes is informed by Black feminist, third world feminist, and transnational feminist theories. In her research, Akosua looks at how Black and racialized people (especially women and femme identified people within these groups) utilize anti-racist, decolonial, and Indigenous practices to reclaim their subjectivities and shift the way that their communities and subjectivities are understood. Find her joyless ramblings on Substack at BLK LOOKS.
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