Sublime

slash explores the possibility of existing outside of those categories, of combining elements of masculinity and femininity into a satisfactorily whole yet constantly fluid identity.

emotional corporeality is moreover a central element to defining black racial authenticity.

David Halperin attempts to define “queer” in his 1997 book, Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography, in which he argues that Foucault’s idea that sexuality is a product of discourse revolutionized gay and lesbian political activism. He describes “queer” as “whatever is at odds with the normal, the legitimate, the dominant. There is nothing in par

To be at the intersection of female-identifying, queer, and Black is to find oneself at an integral apex. Each of these components is a key technology in and of itself. Alone and together, “female,” “queer,” “Black” as a survival strategy demand the creation of their individual machinery, that innovates, builds, resists. With physical movement ofte

Some women are aroused by gay men and may become sexually expressive with such men in a more confident and spontaneous way than they can with straight men. The issue here is clearly one of safety. Gay men make it safe for these women to become sexually aggressive

This threat is in fact an attempt to counter the danger the men frequenting the park instantiate with their transgression of sexual and identitarian norms.

have. Self-consciousness about one’s “sexual orientation” keeps the issue of gender central at exactly the moment in human experience when gender really needs to become profoundly peripheral.

none who protested the production of these men as twenty-first century sex deviants, or the almost extralegal management of their behavior by a local news station.9