A Blackqueer Sexual Ethics: Embodiment, Possibility, and Living Archive (T&T Clark Enquiries in Embodiment, Sexuality, and Social Ethics)

By Elyse Ambrose

In A Blackqueer Sexual Ethics: Embodiment, Possibility, and Living Archive Elyse Ambrose looks to an archive of Blackqueerness as an authoritative source for religious ethical reflection. This approach counters the disintegrative norms of anti-Black and anti-body traditionalism in Christian sexual ethics, even those that strive to be liberative. It builds upon a tradition of Black queer and LGBTQ+-centered critique at the intersections of race, sexuality, gender, and religion through exploring the moral imagination of sexual and gender non-conformist communities in 1920's Harlem (their rent parties, blues environments, and Hamilton Lodge Ball); ethics and theology blackqueering the disciplines; and contemporary oral histories (including photographs of the subjects by the scholar-artist) of those doing ethics in their Blackqueerness. These serve as integrative sites that signal Blackqueer ethical counter-patterns of communal belonging, individual and collective becoming, goodness, embodied spirit/inspirited bodies, and shared thriving. Emphases on both personal and social right-relatedness mark a shift from Christian sexual ethics based on rules, toward a communal relations-based transreligious ethics of sexuality.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0567707938
• ISBN13: 9780567707932
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"