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“That Which We Are Still Learning to Name”: Two Photographs of Black Queer Intimacy
- Southern Cultures
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Volume 26, Number 2, Summer 2020
- pp. 150-157
- 10.1353/scu.2020.0033
- Article
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Abstract:
This essay compares two photographs that depict two pairs of Black women. The first image is undated with subjects not identified; the second image features the late artist/architect Amaza Lee Meredith and her partner, the late educator Dr. Edna Meade Colson. As part of a reflection on travel, love, and intimacy, each photograph serves as a conduit for reckoning with the complexity of a Black southern female subjectivity, one in which queer romance and desire might be centered. Both images prompt reflection on lives lived, in some ways, beyond the legibility of normative expectations.