AFRO-DIASPORIC DANCE, QUEER KINSHIP, AND THE PRAXIS OF CARE: Sociopoetic Forces of Embodied Liberation.

This essay examines a trans and non-binary Afro-diasporic model of Black and Brown gender expression through embodied memory and dance. The proposed afro-diasporic model challenges colonialist binaries that restrict transgender and non-binary peoples of Andean, Indigenous, Afro-Caribbean, and Africa...

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Published in:Cross Currents Vol. 75; no. 1; pp. 5 - 23
Main Author: Domenack, Damien Pascal
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Published: University of North Carolina Press Mar2025
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