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[Anonymous No.5417669]

Are there any good books about queer people of colour?

[Anonymous No.5417674]

wow, just wow.
Burroughs, most colourful personality I know.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.5417679]

>>5417669
Baldwin?

[Anonymous No.5417711]

>>5417674
>>5417679
>both American

[Anonymous No.5417751]

I helped get one of my students (I teach creative writing at an admittedly mediocre state university) published last year -- you should check xer out! Xer name is Natalysqa Gordon, and she's a brilliant, fierce queer person of colour who offers refreshing narratives of what it's like to be a queer person of color in a heterocisanglonormative world. She was so damn good that she's the only one who passed my class, actually. Everyone else was busy regurgitating the hackneyed tails of dead old white men, none of whom were really that great in the first place. Read, say, Nabokov, and then read Natalysqa. Nabokov's prose is colorless, and his content is trite and weary -- only a whiter-than-bleach anglo could find any interest in it. But Natalysqa can draw on her diverse life experience to tell wonderful, touching, powerful, and wise stories. Here's an excerpt from one of her stories called "What it is to be a true nigger faggot" :

"Yeah nigga, I'm a nigga, so what. Yeah nigga, I'm queer, so what. Yeah nigga, I'm a queer nigga, so what. "

The brevity of the sentences hit us like powerful punches, one, two, three, whamp, just like that. And in 8 words, she manages to say more than western philosophy ever has about the human condition.

[Zeeburg No.5417759]

>>5417679
I'm c-confessing my love to you, butterfly.

From this point forward, all my posts and threads will be dedicated to you.

[Anonymous No.5417768]

>>5417759
I got banned for saying that.

[Anonymous No.5417772]

>>5417669
Now isn't that the stupidest request ever?

[Anonymous No.5417774]

>>5417751
>tfw writing a book with queer people of colour for protagonists
>tfw love Nabokov
Y-you're not inspiring confidence, anon.

[Zeeburg No.5417779]

>>5417768
Really? Hopefully that won't happen to me.

[Anonymous No.5417784]

>>5417774
don't let idiots who reply to b8 threads get you down, anon

[Anonymous No.5417858]

>>5417772
why isn't it a perfectly good request

[Anonymous No.5417865]

>>5417669
Probably not, because POC are the most hateful shits of them all. Also isn't white a type of color also. Why does POC excludes whites, the ones who probably invented the termin,

[Anonymous No.5417868]

>>5417865
>Although the term citizens of color was used by Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1963, and other uses date to as early as 1793, people of color did not gain prominence for many years.[7][8] Influenced by radical theorists like Frantz Fanon, racial justice activists in the U.S. began to use the term people of color in the late 1970s and early 1980s. By the late 1980s and early 1990s, it was in wide circulation.[9] Both anti-racist activists and academics sought to move understandings of race beyond the black-white binary then prevalent.[10]

[Anonymous No.5418677]

the autobiography of malcolm X
long walk to freedom
dreams from my father

[Anonymous No.5419189]

>>5417669
Confessions of a Mask?

[Anonymous No.5419210]

>>5417669
Actually using the phrase 'people of colour'

This is one of the stupidest categories to ever exist

[Anonymous No.5419585]

MC is a bisexual half-Amerindian
He joins a gang of gay blacks