The follow-up to the groundbreaking Black Queer Studies, the edited
collection No Tea, No Shade brings together nineteen essays
from the next generation of scholars, activists, and community
leaders doing work on black gender and sexuality. Building on the
foundations laid by the earlier volume, this collection's
contributors speak new truths about the black queer experience while
exemplifying the codification of black queer studies as a rigorous
and important field of study. Topics include "raw" sex,
pornography, the carceral state, gentrification, gender
nonconformity, social media, the relationship between black feminist
studies and black trans studies, the black queer experience
throughout the black diaspora, and queer music, film, dance, and
theater. The contributors both disprove naysayers who believed black
queer studies to be a passing trend and respond to critiques of the
field's early U.S. bias. Deferring to the past while pointing to the
future, No Tea, No Shade pushes black queer studies in new and
exciting directions.
Contributors. Jafari
S. Allen, Marlon M. Bailey, Zachary Shane Kalish Blair, La Marr
Jurelle Bruce, Cathy J. Cohen, Jennifer DeClue, Treva Ellison, Lyndon
K. Gill, Kai M. Green, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Kwame Holmes, E. Patrick
Johnson, Shaka McGlotten, Amber Jamilla Musser, Alison Reed, Ramón
H. Rivera-Servera, Tanya Saunders, C. Riley Snorton, Kaila Story,
Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley, Julia Roxanne Wallace, Kortney Ziegler