"original kink": Poetry In The Black Queer Experience | The Rainbow Times | New England's Largest LGBTQ Newspaper | Boston
The Work, In original kink, Investigates Vulnerability, Masculinity in the Black LGBTQ+ Experience NEW YORK— original kink addresses the stereotype of the Black man as rage-filled, fearful, and hyper-masculine. It takes on the stereotype of the Queer man as sensual, vulnerable, and feminine. It is at the intersection of these two interrogations of Black and Queer identity that Jubi Arriola-Headley flourishes. “[This is not] a white space,” Arriola-Headley writes, using literal blank spaces within his own anthology to symbolize the blatant reality of Black erasure in the United States. I...
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