{"title":"Being Human Is a Dangerous Thing","authors":"E. P. Johnson","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469641102.003.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469641102.003.0010","url":null,"abstract":"Johnson’s appreciation for resilience and forgiveness are evident in this chapter. Cherry Hussain recounts her life story, including her upbringing in Daytona Beach, Florida, her involvement in church as a young person, her first marriage to a man, and her relationship with her wife, Pat. She also discusses her attachment to the term “dyke,” as opposed to lesbian, and gives a brief history of how she began identifying with the label.","PeriodicalId":206070,"journal":{"name":"Black. Queer. Southern. Women.","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127498871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"I’m Sweet on You","authors":"E. Johnson","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469641102.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469641102.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter probes the narrators’ deep and enduring emotional and romantic attachments to other women, primarily by focusing on stories of dating and marriage. Johnson’s interlocutors recall: stories of how they met their partners, memories of particular dates, their family’s responses to their relationships, and, for some of them, how and when they decided to pursue marriage. Importantly, Johnson notes that all of these interviews took place before the Supreme Court case that legalized same-sex marriage across the nation in 2015. Despite the legal limits of partnership in Southern states, several of these women chose to remain in the region. Their choices reflect the need to think expansively about the possibilities for queer life for Black women in the South.","PeriodicalId":206070,"journal":{"name":"Black. Queer. Southern. Women.","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121240121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Work My Soul Was Called to Do","authors":"E. Johnson","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469641102.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469641102.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter considers the role that art and political organizing play in the lives of Black, queer, Southern women. Defining art broadly—as baking, playing instruments, or writing creatively—Johnson makes visible their contributions to Black, Southern culture. The narrators discuss their impetuses for creating art, how being queer in the South impacts their creations, and how their works have developed over time. The chapter is divided into two sections: in the first, the narrators theorize about how their art and sexuality are related, and in the second, they talk frankly about the various ways that they stay politically involved.","PeriodicalId":206070,"journal":{"name":"Black. Queer. Southern. Women.","volume":"124 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114372807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}