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Moving through Trauma: Black Queer Vulnerability in Moonlight
- QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking
- Michigan State University Press
- Volume 9, Number 1, Spring 2022
- pp. 43-57
- Article
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Abstract
abstract:
In this essay I look at Barry Jenkins’ film Moonlight and reflect upon how the film employs trauma and the anticipation of trauma to develop a complex depiction of Black cismale identity informed by Black queer masculinity rooted in tenderness, caring, and vulnerability.
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