Queer Times, Black Futures by Kara Keeling;

Author:Kara Keeling;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: SOC052000 Social Science / Media Studies
Publisher: New York University Press

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“Corporate Cannibal”

Risk, Errantry, and Imagination in the Age of Catastrophe

I couldn’t sell out, but I created the space for others to be able to make it, without the pressure of being a pioneer. They can play the pioneer without taking the actual risk. Because to take the risk means to never soften enough that you can become truly successful. It means saying no to things that might give you success . . . but not necessarily. I am to this day a radical about not going with the flow. I decided after disco that I would not follow the formula, that I would create something else. If I had followed the crowd, by now I would be as rich as people think I am.

—Grace Jones as told to Paul Morley, I’ll Never Write My Memoirs

This costume is just a part of the nakedness ’cause how long am I really gonna have it on if someone starts throwing money? If someone likes how I look with this costume on and they want me to take it off and they’re throwing the money, I’m gonna have to take it off. So, really I just feel like the nakedness is the uniform. The costume is just the accessary to it, kinda like a bracelet or some earrings.”

—Portia Jordan, in Dreams Are Colder than Death

A black woman’s body was never hers alone.

—Fannie Lou Hamer, as conveyed in Chana Kai Lee, For Freedom’s Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer

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