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Damien W. Riggs seeks successfully to "contribute to the queering of white privilege itself, but also to an interrogation of white queer privilege —something that queer rights campaigns on the whole have most often failed to do" 4. In redressing this, he makes an original contribution to debates about sexual, racial, and national identity in a range of disciplines. Riggs draws a correct contrast between "much queer rights rhetoric, which often accepts the framework of liberal individualism," and his proposal that "rights advocacy may constitute a critique of the very notion of state sanction itself"

It argues that Black lesbian texts celebrate both the strategies of resistance used by queer Black subjects and the spaces for grieving the loss of queer Black subjects that dominant histories of the African diasporas often forget. Brown, Jewelle Gomez, Jackie Kay, and Cherry Muhanji in order to relocate the queerness of Black diasporic vernacular traditions, including drag or gender performance, blues, jazz, and West African spiritual and religious practices. Richardson argues that the vernacular includes queer epistemologies, or methods for accessing and exploring the realities of Black queer experience that other alternative archives and spaces of commemoration do not explore. The queer limit of black memory : Black Lesbian literature and irresolution. The queer limit of black memory: Black Lesbian literature and irresolution.

To-may-to, to-mah-to. Anyway, I played through all of the academy phase fully expecting to be sacrificed on an altar at some point. You want to get kids out of foster care and into good, loving homes? Did you know LGBT couples are more likely to adopt older, children of color and disable children than straight couples? This is so important because I remember being in the system and being so scared that I would never be adopted or loved or whatever and seriously just fucking let them, take the fear out of finding a family.