Moreover, the panel is an opportunity to foreground the national and transnational nature of Black Queer information networks.īlack Gay Mail is part of ASE Commons, A Series on Race, Power, and Critical Thought This panel seeks to augment public and scholarly discourses about the role of print media, aesthetics, and technology in 20th century Black Queer social networks. Print media and the postal system served as critical venues for the creators, contributors, and readers at this time to circulate information and images regarding live events unfolding like the first wave of the HIV/AIDS epidemic as well as personal fantasies, manifestos, and updates.
Their uses of analog, digital, and/or printing technologies to produce the magazines and zines.Victorianne (Buti Voxx), and Ric Irick (Malebox) will discuss: Register for the Zoom link at Please join for Black Gay Mail, a panel with four seminal activist-cultural producers discussing the print media they created and circulated in the late 20th century.Īlan Bell (BLK/Gaysweek), Ajamu X (Wickers and Bullers/Blac), Gregory D.
