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