BlaQueer of Left Podcast Tabias Olajuawon Wilson
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- Society & Culture
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Tabias Olajuawon, JD/ABD is an author, poet, speaker and interdisciplinary scholar who studies race and African American culture using the tools provided by various disciplines including: law, literary and cultural studies, music, and the social sciences. He has published numerous blogs and articles in the areas of law, cultural studies, BlaQueer Studies and African American studies.
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Brother To Brother: On BlaQueer Friendships, Love Practices and the Costs of Wholeness
In this live-streamed episode, we are joined by my best friend Taurean; while we recount and explore the important lessons we've learned about love and life, through our BlaQueer bond. This episode focus on BlaQueer friendships, relationships, life at HBCUs & PWIs, workplace issues, belonging, mental health and the practice of what I've called, "critical love ethics."
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Ep 4: BlaQueer Reflections, This Ain't About Jussie
This mini episode is a brief reflection on BlaQueer life; and how BlaQueer people are rendered especially unbelievable, illegible and without credibility. It is a meditative and poetic reflection on the BlaQueer mystique.
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Ep 3: How TF Do We Choose A Candidate?!
This episode--also recorded on facebook--analyzes a the current democratic field from a Black and BlaQueer gaze, while centering the Black poor. The question simple, yet hard to answer, "how tf do we choose a candidate?!"
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Ep 2: Poems of Resistance, Essex Hemphill, 21 Savage, BlaQueerness and Policing As Racial-Sexual Terror
This episode is a poetic meditation on the week's events in Black and BlaQueer life; beginning with readings of historic Black poems. Here, we address the racial-sexual politics of policing as anti-Black violence; anti-immigration practices as afterlives of slavery; and Blackness and Queerness as inseperable, co-constituitive realities in BlaQueer life.
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Stop Playing (In My) Black Face: The Curious Case of Gov. Northam
A BlaQueer of Left "hot take" on the "black face" mess surrounding Virginia Governor Ralph Northam. Common talk with a deep BlaQueer, Black Feminist, Historicizing, Critical Race, Political analysis.