Today Duncan, who inspired and challenged audiences with his breakout first book, Dear Church, brings us a deeply personal story about growing up Black and queer in the U.S. In 1991, when he was 13 years old, Lenny Duncan stepped out of his house in West Philadelphia, walked to the Greyhound station, and bought a ticket-the start of his great American adventure. Broome's writing brims with swagger and sensitivity, bringing an exquisite and fresh voice to ongoing cultural conversations about Blackness in America. Cleverly framed around Gwendolyn Brooks's poem "We Real Cool," the iconic and loving ode to Black boyhood, Punch Me Up to the Gods is at once playful, poignant, and wholly original. But it is Brian's voice in the retelling that shows the true depth of vulnerability for young Black boys that is often quietly near to bursting at the seams. A no-nonsense mother and broken father play crucial roles in our misfit's origin story. Indiscriminate sex and escalating drug use help to soothe his hurt, young psyche, usually to uproarious and devastating effect. Brian's recounting of his experiences-in all their cringe-worthy, hilarious, and heartbreaking glory-reveal a perpetual outsider awkwardly squirming to find his way in. Punch Me Up to the Gods introduces a powerful new talent in Brian Broome, whose early years growing up in Ohio as a dark-skinned Black boy harboring crushes on other boys propel forward this gorgeous, aching, and unforgettable debut. Electrifying and inspiring, animated by the same voracious intelligence that distinguishes their fiction, Dear Senthuran is a revelatory account of storytelling, self, and survival.Ī raw, poetic, coming-of-age "masterwork" (The New York Times) about Blackness, masculinity and addiction. Their story weaves through transformative decisions about their gender and body, their precipitous path to success as a writer, and the turmoil of relationships on an emotional, romantic, and spiritual plane, culminating in a book that is as tender as it is brutal. Through candid, intimate correspondence with friends, lovers, and family, Emezi traces the unfolding of a self and the unforgettable journey of a creative spirit stepping into power in the human world. Now, in this extraordinary memoir, the bestselling author of The Death of Vivek Oji reveals the harrowing yet resolute truths of their own life. In three critically acclaimed novels, Akwaeke Emezi has introduced readers to a landscape marked by familial tensions, Igbo belief systems, and a boundless search for what it means to be free. A full-throated and provocative memoir in letters from the New York Times-bestselling author, "a dazzling literary talent whose works cut to the quick of the spiritual self." -Esquire. "One of our greatest living writers." - Shondaland. "A once-in-a-generation voice." - Vulture. "Giving a Voice to Black Gay Men." * Film information. Streaming via Alexander Street and Kanopy (both UCLA only). Marlon Riggs (California Newsreel, 1989).
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I shall not be removed: the life of Marlon Riggs. Streaming via Alexander Street and Kanopy (UCLA only, both). Nancy Kates, Bennett Singer (ITS/National Black Programming Consortium California Newsreel, 2002). DVD HV6250.4.H *Film informationīrother Outsider: the Life of Bayard Rustin. Charles Bennett Brack, Sam Castrillo (Third World Newsreel, 2008). DVD HQ75.4.E Film informationĭreams Deferred: The Sakia Gunn Film Project. Biographical documentary about the life, times and music of piano legend James Booker. Streaming via Kanopy (UCLA only) film website.
"LGBT rights in African American communities."īayou Maharajah. DVD HQ76.27.A *Film web site also streaming via Kanopy (UCLA only). Yoruba Richen (Promised Land Film, 2013). Blair Dorosh-Walther (The Fire This Time, 2014). "Gender roles in the Black lesbian community." Film information Streaming via Kanopy (UCLA only). Tracy Heather Strain (California Newsreel, 2017). Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart. *Available for use only by UCLA Law School students, faculty and staff please request films at the Circulation Desk.