The Contradictions of Grief
The Contradictions of Grief
Violence and Value in Blacklight Magazine
This chapter examines the magazine's representations of a string of unsolved murders targeting same-sex-desiring and gender non-conforming black bodies in Washington, D.C., in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It then explores these serial murders as an alternative historical site for examining the problem of value as a raced, class, gendered, sexualized, and spatialized term. Through close readings of a poem and performance that responded to these murders, it shows how black gay artists imagined alternative to normative conceptions of value.
Keywords: black gay media, serial murder, violence, social value, Washington, D.C
Chicago Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs, and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us.
