This need is why E. Patrick Johnson coined the term “quare” studies.31 Johnson defines quare in part as —adj. 2. a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered person of color who loves other men or women, sexually or nonsexually, and appreciates black culture and community. —n. 3. one who thinks and feels and acts (and, sometimes, “acts up”); committed to struggle against all forms of oppression—racial, sexual, gender, class, religious, etc. —n. 4. one for whom sexual and gender identities always already intersect with racial subjectivity. —n. 5. quare is to queer as “reading” is to “throwing
...more
