Darius Bost
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780226589794
- eISBN:
- 9780226589961
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226589961.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gay and Lesbian Studies
This chapter examines the magazine's representations of a string of unsolved murders targeting same-sex-desiring and gender non-conforming black bodies in Washington, D.C., in the late 1970s and ...
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This chapter examines the magazine's representations of a string of unsolved murders targeting same-sex-desiring and gender non-conforming black bodies in Washington, D.C., in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It then explores these serial murders as an alternative historical site for examining the problem of value as a raced, class, gendered, sexualized, and spatialized term. Through close readings of a poem and performance that responded to these murders, it shows how black gay artists imagined alternative to normative conceptions of value.Less
This chapter examines the magazine's representations of a string of unsolved murders targeting same-sex-desiring and gender non-conforming black bodies in Washington, D.C., in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It then explores these serial murders as an alternative historical site for examining the problem of value as a raced, class, gendered, sexualized, and spatialized term. Through close readings of a poem and performance that responded to these murders, it shows how black gay artists imagined alternative to normative conceptions of value.
