Blackqueer Possibilities: New Directions in Black Queer Religious Studies

This panel will highlight two new books in the growing field of black queer studies of religion, Jimmy’s Faith: James Baldwin, Disidentification, and the Queer Possibilities of Black Religion and A Blackqueer Sexual Ethics: Embodiment, Possibility, and Living Archive, to explore distinct and overlapping approaches to queerness in the study of black religion. In alignment with blackqueer methods, this panel will engage not only the books of two individual scholars, but the thought of other scholars in black queer studies of religion in order to yield a generative space of communality, possibility, and futuring. The presentations by the two authors will be followed by a guided discussion with the attending scholars to discuss the state of black queer studies of religion and potential futures for this emergent and deeply rooted field of study.