Queering Black Female Heterosexuality
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Title of the work: Queering Black Female Heterosexuality
Author: Kimberly Springer
Quotes:
"Today in black communities, women's communities, the hiphop community, and popular culture, the main way of viewing black female sexuality is as victimized or deviant" (Page 357).
"Claiming queerness will give us the latitude we need to explore who we want to be on a continuum. It is a choice that both black women as a group and black women as individuals must make" (Page 360).
"...an intersectional perspective to queering black female heterosexuality is to remain mindful of [my own] heterosexual privilege and the pitfalls of appropriating queerness as identity and not as a political position" (Page 360).
Storyboard Text
- Last night a guy I never met before walked up to me and called me a hoe and told me that I look like Megan Thee Stallion. When I told him to leave me alone, he said cm'on bitch I want you to come over and show me a good time. Ugh... I hate how black women are always sexualized.
- Remember Megan Thee Stallion's performance at the Grammys last week with Cardi B? They were climbing on a bed and barely wearing any clothes. It's crazy how stereotypes like the Jezebel and the Sapphire are still being perpetuated. Society always assumes black women are either extremely sexual or asexual.
- Yeah. It's not fair. This has been going on for centuries. We need new visions and ways about talking about black female sexuality so we can enjoy sex on our own terms. People need to stop assuming we are overly sexual or not sexual at all simply because we are black woman.
- You're right! Biology is not our destiny! It's time to queer black female heterosexuality.
- Queer black female heterosexuality? What does that mean? We're not queer... we identify as heterosexual.
- Queer doesn't have to be a noun, it can also be a verb. Queerness is not an identity, it is a position or stance. Essentially, queer is something that we can do. Think about what the LGBTQ+ community has done, they celebrate being able to self-define their own sexuality.
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