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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University of North Carolina Press
Mar2025
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