Shirley Clarke – Social Text

Afro-Fabulating in the Shadows

Leon Hilton

“I have a right to show my color, darling! I am beautiful and I know I’m beautiful!” The opening pages of Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life summon the specter of Crystal Labeija. In a now-iconic scene from the … Continue reading “Afro-Fabulating in the Shadows”

January 28, 2020 | Features

A Dark Cinema

Malik Gaines

Film plays an important role in Tavia Nyong’o’s Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life and offers a kind of historical starting point in the 60s and 70s for the contemporary span this book covers. Nyong’o introduces his project via … Continue reading “A Dark Cinema”

January 28, 2020 | Features

Editors for the Social Text Collective: Jonathan Beller; Amber Jamilla Musser; David Sartorius

Editor-at-Large: Tavia Nyong'o

Web Editor / Web Fiction Editor: Anna McCarthy

Managing Editor / Web Poetry Editor: Marie Buck

Arts Editor: Susette Min

Collective: John Andrews; Jonathan Beller; Herman Bennett; Jayna Brown; Filipa Calado; Ed Cohen; Gabriella Coleman; Aimee Meredith Cox; Ashley Dawson; Patrick Deer; Ezekiel Dixon-Román; Ángeles Donoso Macaya; Ana María Dopico; Mark Driscoll; David L. Eng; Allen Feldman; Michael Boyce Gillespie; Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi; Macarena Gómez-Barris; Sarah Haley; Laura Harris; Leon Hilton; Tariq Jazeel; David Kazanjian; Eng-Beng Lim; Michael Mandiberg; Rick Maxwell; Anna McCarthy; Micki McGee; Maya Mikdashi; Susette Min; Nicholas Mirzoeff; Roopali Mukherjee; Amber Jamilla Musser; Tavia Nyong'o; Shireen R. K. Patell; Alex Pittman; Jennifer S. Ponce de León; Jasbir K. Puar; Shana L. Redmond; María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo; David Sartorius; Ella Shohat; Lok Siu; Gustavus Stadler; Neferti X. M. Tadiar; Helga Tawil-Souri; Simón Ventura Trujillo; Hentyle Yapp