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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.

BlaQueer of Left Podcast Tabias Olajuawon Wilson

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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.

    Brother To Brother: On BlaQueer Friendships, Love Practices and the Costs of Wholeness

    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."

    • 57 min
    Ep 4: BlaQueer Reflections, This Ain't About Jussie

    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.

    • 16 min
    Ep 3: How TF Do We Choose A Candidate?!

    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?!"

    • 29 min
    Ep 2: Poems of Resistance, Essex Hemphill, 21 Savage, BlaQueerness and Policing As Racial-Sexual Terror

    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.

    • 39 min
    Stop Playing (In My) Black Face: The Curious Case of Gov. Northam

    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.

    • 25 min

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