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Title: Godless Circumcisions: A Recollecting & Re-membering of Blackness, Queerness & Flows of Survivance

Author: Tabias Olajuawon Wilson

• ISBN-10: 1519539967
• ISBN-13: 978-1519539960
• Publication Date: 1/8/16

 

Synopsis: Godless Circumcisions is a witty and forceful study of race, sex and politics in contemporary culture. Personal and poetic, these essays, poems and biographical trysts disrobe issues central to the black, queer and working class existences. Wilson speaks fluently—fluctuating between academic authority, queer griot and matter-of-fact honesty—to issues of racial-sexual terror; masculine anxiety; how Black men learn the erotic, sex and vulnerability; the stereotypes of Black and BlaQueer people in the United States. Paying special attention to the costs of assimilation—or cultural circumcisions—Wilson invites the reader on his personal and political journey to a practice of critical love ethics.

 

 

I accept homosexuality as a part of human sexuality however......
Why is it that now-a-days almost eveytime the sexuality of Black men is referenced in public it is rarely complimentary?
It rarely praises our sexual power, our virility, or our skills in the bedroom.
For those of us old enough to remember, that USED TO be a stereotype of Black men that so many in our community....for some reason....worked hard as hell to dismantle.

Rather now, too often the themes revolve around some backhanded attempt to "question" the Black man's sexuality.
To "question" his manhood in this society.
Too often the literature today discussing Black man sexuality isn't to promote traditional Black masculinity but rather sneaky attempts to create an image of Black men that makes the public look at every Black man they meet sideways and wonder whether or not he's gay and on the down low and "queer" instead of assuming he's heterosexual as they do the Asian or Latino male.