Season 1 Episode 4: Our Ancestors Are Queer

Abolitionist Dreamscapes

In this episode I talk about the relationship between our ancestors and queerness. To know our ancestors means to gain a deeper understanding of Self. Which means we have to question the assumptions we have about who we are and how we are trained to see ourselves in rigid/binary ways. This is where queerness enters. For me it was my elevated queer ancestors and Orisa who helped me not only see and embrace both my queerness and gayness, but in doing so I was able to see the larger ways the spirit of capitalism and Christian white patriarchy makes its ways into Black spiritual spaces. And it clouded the ways my readings were interpreted by babalawos who were aligned with a more patriarchal lens of relationships.

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