Strange Fruit #223: Black Queer Bodies Are Not For White Consumption




Strange Fruit show

Summary: This week we talk with Tabais Olajuawon about his recent essay, "We Are Not Yours: I’m tired of white women’s racial-sexual terrorism of my BlaQueer body" (https://blackyouthproject.com/im-tired-of-white-womens-racial-sexual-terrorism-of-my-blaqueer/) And we meet Phillipe Cunningham, a special education teacher and black trans man who was just elected to the city council in Minneapolis. (https://www.advocate.com/politics/2017/11/08/trans-man-has-also-been-elected-minneapolis-city-council)