A Blackqueer Sexual Ethics: Embodiment, Possibility, and Living Archive by Elyse Ambrose ISBN 9780567707949, 0567707946 instant download

A Blackqueer Sexual Ethics: Embodiment, Possibility, and Living Archive by Elyse Ambrose ISBN 9780567707949, 0567707946 instant download

This book builds upon a tradition of black queer critique at the intersections of race, sexuality, gender and religion through black queer (sexual and gender non-conformist) communities--blues environs, rent parties, and the Hamilton Lodge Ball-- in 1920s Harlem; gay, lesbian, and queer theological and ethical voices; and contemporary oral histories of those doing ethics as black queer selves. These serve as sites of moral inquiry that signal ethical counter-patterns of integration for all: communal belonging, individual and collective becoming, goodness, inspirited flesh/enfleshed spirit, and shared thriving. This book challenges norms that have long disintegrated persons from themselves, God, and their communities. Emphases on both personal and social right-relatedness mark a shift from Christian sexual ethics based on rules, toward a communal relations-based transreligious ethics.