Ezili's Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders

Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley

Published by Duke University Press 2018

Ezili's Mirrors

Imagining Black Queer Genders

Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822372080

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About this book

Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley traces how contemporary queer Caribbean and African American writers, filmmakers, musicians, and performers evoke the divinity Ezili—a pantheon of lwa feminine spirits in Vodou—in ways that offer a new model of queer black feminist theory.

Author / Editor information

Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley is Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas and author of Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism between Women in Caribbean Literature, also published by Duke University Press.

Reviews

"Ezili’s Mirrors thoroughly and carefully mines the utility and uniqueness of multiple spiritual and thought traditions, aesthetics, and sources of knowledge. . .. Ezili’s Mirrors is important because through it Tinsley shows us ways that black femme life and black queer life exists and asserts itself as other than the abject, the undesirable, the inappropriate, and the excessive."

-- Alexandria Smith The New Inquiry

"I have longed for a book as daring as Ezili's Mirrors."

-- Meredith Coleman-Tobias Reading Religion

"This pathbreaking work prompts Black feminist and queer diaspora scholars to use their academic training not as an endpoint, but as a point of departure, emboldening scholars to turn to whatever sources that are necessary to write books that will sustain alternative forms of knowing under increasing conditions of precarity in Black queer diasporic lives, loves, and labor."

-- Darius Bost The Black Scholar

"Once in a great while, a gem of a book comes along. It is not only elegantly written and astutely composed, compellingly and courageously argued, but it also opens up new and generative ways of looking at the African diaspora and the disciplines devoted to its study. I am talking about Tinsley’s Ezili’s Mirrors. I read the book with intense joy, on many levels: its theoretical polyamory, its dazzling methodology, its engrossing narrations, and the different senses it calls on."

-- Gloria Wekker TSQ

"Ezili's Mirrors makes an original contribution to the development of the field of queer black religion and to the ways in which this scholarship has a wider, public impact in the representation and self-understanding of queer-of-color spiritual communities whose members experience lives of constant fragmentation and recomposition daily, globally."

-- Roberto Strongman GLQ

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
BRIDGE Read This Book Like a Song Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
INTRODUCTION For the Love of Laveau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
BRIDGE A Black Cisfemme Is a Beautiful Thing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
ONE To Transcender Transgender Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
BRIDGE Sissy Werk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
TWO Mache Ansanm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
BRIDGE My Femdom, My Love Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
THREE Riding the Red Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
BRIDGE For the Party Girls Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
FOUR It’s a Party Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
BRIDGE Baía and Marigo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
CONCLUSION Arties’s Song Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
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Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 264
Illustrations
- Other: 8 photographs

eBook

Published: January 19, 2018
ISBN: 9780822372080