Cover of Corpus, Fall 2005. New issue deals with race & sexuality among gay men of color
For the past seven or eight months i've been working on a small collection of essays about the cultural politics of black men, social value, and HIV/AIDS, with LAMBDA Award winning performance artist and poet Marvin K. White (of eighties PomoAfroHomos fame). The manuscript for this collection, which is a "sequel" to a small anthology published in 2003 called Think Again, has gone through several title changes and transformations. Currently entitled "If We Have To Take Tomorrow": New Essays on Black Men and Sex Same Desire, its scheduled to be released in early 2006 by AIDS Project Los Angeles, the New York State Black Gay Network, Gay Men's Health Crisis, Black AIDS Institute and the National Black Justice Coalition.
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The unreleased anthology features great new material from Dr. David Malebranche, Thomas Glave, Reginald Harris, E. Patrick Johnson, Tim'm West, Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou, Kenyon Farrow, Charles Stephens, Khary Polk, and many others. New York State Black Gay Network Executive Director Colin Robinson and Institute for Gay Men's Health Director George Ayala are creative heads for the book. I'm excited about the opportunites that this project will provide for new discussions about the future(s) of black gay and lesbian cultural politics.
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In the meantime, AIDS PROJECT LOS ANGELES & The Gay Men's Health Crisis, two of the fabulous co-publishers of If We Have To Take Tomorrow, have just published the latest issue of their fascinating cultural studies journal Corpus. This gorgeously designed bi-annual journal uses visual culture, cultural criticism, poetry, short stories and photography to expose some of the challenges of HIV prevention in gay and bisexual communities (primarily in communities of color). Edited by the brilliant Robert Reid Pharr, the new issue of Corpus features writings by Samuel Delaney, John Keene, Darieck Scott, Ronaldo Wilson, Aldo Alvarez and so many more. Additionally, this latest issue features many of the writers that will be in the collection that Marvin White and I are co-editing. Wonderously, the complete journal is available for downloading in the PDF format at APLA's website here.
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Definitely check it out.
represent, my people.
Posted by
Unknown |
10/26/2005
It's about time there was a publication inclusive for all men of color.
Posted by
Anonymous |
10/26/2005
Go 'head Frank, get your mackity mack on! (Homeboy is cute!)
Posted by
Anonymous |
10/26/2005
aneesa with clothes on? shocking! (and glamorous)
Posted by
yes |
10/27/2005