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Blackqueer Sexual Ethics

Embodiment, Possibility, and Living Archive

Blackqueer Sexual Ethics

Embodiment, Possibility, and Living Archive

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9780567707925
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 27/06/2024
Width: 13.6 cm
Height: 21.6 cm
In A Blackqueer Sexual Ethics: Embodiment, Possibility, and Living Archive Elyse Ambrose looks to an archive of Blackqueerness as an authoritative source for religious ethical reflection. This approach counters the disintegrative norms of anti-Black and anti-body traditionalism in Christian sexual ethics, even those that strive to be liberative. It builds upon a tradition of Black queer and LGBTQ+-centered critique at the intersections of race, sexuality, gender, and religion through exploring the moral imagination of sexual and gender non-conformist communities in 1920’s Harlem (their rent parties, blues environments, and Hamilton Lodge Ball); ethics and theology blackqueering the disciplines; and contemporary oral histories (including photographs of the subjects by the scholar-artist) of those doing ethics in their Blackqueerness. These serve as integrative sites that signal Blackqueer ethical counter-patterns of communal belonging, individual and collective becoming, goodness, embodied spirit/inspirited bodies, and shared thriving. 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 of sexuality.

Introduction
Toward Blackqueer Possibility in/through Living Archive

Chapter 1

Examining the Integrative in Blackqueer Harlem

Chapter 2

Blackqueering of Ethical and Theological Discourse

Chapter 3

Spirit in the Dark Body - Blackqueer Expressions of the Im/material

Chapter 4
Constructing a Blackqueer Ethics of Sexuality


Epilogue
Bibliography
Index

Professor Elyse Ambrose (University of California, Riverside, USA)

Elyse Ambrose is Assistant Professor of the Study of Religion and Black Study at the University of California, Riverside, USA.