Our Collective Becoming

Our Collective Becoming

Quiet Fraying: Notes on Black Queer Family

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Roberto Che Espinoza, PhD
Oct 02, 2025
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Beloveds,

“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” — James Baldwin

“Queerness is not yet here… we must dream and enact new and better pleasures, other ways of being in the world.” — José Esteban Muñoz

I keep noticing the places where the fabric thins. Not the spectacular tear—no slammed doors, no last-…

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