Episode 1: Historical Contex

Narrated by Niyah Shaheed

(they/she)

Niyah Shaheed reading Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought. Photographed by Macy Jones (2025).

Key texts in the context of Queering Blackness:

“These texts come from scholars across disciplines, and engage in a variety of theoretical frameworks, but are of great use to understanding the historic contexts of Black cultures in Africa and across the diaspora that do, and always have, displayed varying expressions of gender and sexuality.”