Elyse Ambrose takes the reader on a journey through Harlem in the 1920's and 30's to what are referred to as living archives, pictures and interviews with blackqueer folk today. This journey is about the expansion of ethics in relation to black bodies, moving them from bodies that have been alienated and problematized to the centre of the creation of ethics coming from the blackqueer communities. Along the way Ambrose dismantles patriarchy, white centric thinking and calls to account the black churches and theologians who have not been as inclusive as they should have been. At its heart it is a book that declares love to be political and ethics to be a process set in multiple communities.
It is a book that celebrates the divine within blackness, blackqueerness, a work to be embraced not just read. * Lisa Isherwood, The University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK * In this hopeful and wise book Elyse Ambrose argues what might happen if ethicists take seriously blackqueer experience. They observe that such consideration would lead people to see the communal consequences for sexual lives and to measure our commons by how people are doing rather than what they are doing. This is a proposal of better sex for a better society. Now more than ever students and scholars need to hear this clarion call. * Kathryn Lofton, Yale University, USA * A Blackqueer Sexual Ethics sets aside the usual tired, yet ongoing, demeaning and defensive sexuality debates. Instead, it demonstrates the capaciousness that blackqueer sexual ethics produces whether through artistic expressions or everyday, lived histories of communal life. With a rich cornucopia of creative insights, it provides a refreshing, cutting-edge vision for developing sexual ethics. * Traci C. West, Drew University Theological School, USA *
