All posts by Darnell L. Moore
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Anti-black Christianity & White Supremacist Gods: A Meditation on Race and Religion in the U.S.
Today we woke up in a world strikingly similar to and unlike the world we knew this time last year. Scenes replete with countless bodies...
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The Occupation Stole My Words, June Jordan Helped me to Relocate Them
Black feminist poet warrior scholar June Jordan traveled with me from my apartment in Bedstuy (or Bedford-Stuyvesant as she named the urban neighborhood in Brooklyn...
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Ben Fields Is One Problem and The Silent Black Male Administrator Might Be Another
By now you have probably viewed the widely shared video that surfaced Monday capturing former Richland County Senior Deputy Ben Fields questioning, grabbing, slamming and throwing...
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Reflecting on Black Sexualities, Black Religiosity, and Black Lives in Anti-Black Times
The following remarks were presented on October 23, 2014 during the “Religion, Media, Markets and the Making of Black Sexualities” panel at the conference Are...
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Black Freedom Fighters in Ferguson: Some of us are queer
Not all of the freedom fighters are Black men with masculine swag and pedigree. Not all of them are cisgender and straight and able-bodied. Some...
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The Price of Blackness: From Ferguson to Bed-Stuy
The unsettling image of the lifeless body of 18-year old Mike Brown, the unarmed teen shot six times by Officer Darren Wilson, which laid prostrate before...
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Writing Herstory and Resisting Invisibility: A Review of Janet Mock’s Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
Cisgender heterosexuals and lesbian/gay/bisexual people too often disregard the lived experiences and interior lives of transgender women and men—even in these queer times. The preferred...
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Using the Erotic to do Our Work
There are many kinds of power, used and unused, acknowledged or otherwise. The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in...
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Necessary Memories: Trayvon Martin’s Birthday and George Zimmerman’s Celebrity Boxing Match
Sometimes there are things you just can’t forget. Today would have been his birthday. Today, we know that our criminal justice and legal systems, our...
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A Letter to Marissa Alexander
Dear Marissa, It was a cold and dark Christmas Eve—sometime in the mid 80’s. My mom, my three sisters, and I lived in a small,...
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The Liminal Space Between Love and Non-Love: An Introduction to the “Love as a Radical Act” Forum
Love-talk tends to produce uncontaminated discourses that refuse to conceive love as a complex energy that is at once beautiful and messy, charitable and unruly....
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Finding Her Mother’s Gardens: A Review of Pratibha Parmar’s “Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth”
Black women have tended to incredible, secluded gardens within the expansive wasteland of this dysfunctional democracy.–Joy James, from “Resting in the Gardens, Battling in the...
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On Love, Empathy, and Pleasure in the Age of Neoliberalism
In this, the age of late capital and neoliberalism, numbness is desired and the erotic is feared. Audre Lorde aptly deemed this the “fear of...
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Congressional Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Congressional Staff Association to Hold Pride Month Policy Panel: “Beyond DOMA: What’s Next for LGBT Equality?”
In recognition of Pride Month, the Congressional Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Congressional Staff Association (LGBT CSA) will hold a special policy panel entitled: “Beyond...
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Feminists We Love: Kaila Adia Story
Kaila Adia Story (Ph.D., African American Studies & Women’s Studies Temple University M.A., African American Studies Temple University; B.A. Women’s Studies DePaul University) is an associate professor...
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Feminists We Love: Van Bailey
Dr. Van Bailey is the inaugural director of the Office of BGLTQ Student Life at Harvard College. He was the assistant director for education at...
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The Shapings of Black Masculinities
The B52 bus picks up passengers on the corner of Gates and Lewis Avenue in the mostly working poor to middle class, black Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood...
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Refusing to turn blessings into curses
In recognition of International Women’s Day Lord, I hear of showers of blessings Thou art scattering full and free Showers thirsty souls refreshing Let...
