{"id":863,"date":"2018-01-02T20:18:48","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T20:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/?page_id=863"},"modified":"2018-12-19T20:50:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T20:50:11","slug":"negotiating-black-queer-identity-in-the-punk-community","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/negotiating-black-queer-identity-in-the-punk-community\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Quaring&#8221; the Scene: Negotiating Black Queer Identity in the Punk Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Quinci Adams<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--\n\n<h4>Faculty Intro:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n<p>\n\n<\/p>\n\n--><\/p>\n<h4>From the Author:<\/h4>\n<p>&#8220;Over the course of my four years at Goucher I developed ties to Baltimore\u2019s DIY punk scene. As do most punks who are not cisgender heterosexual white men, I had a complicated relationship with the scene: I loved going to shows and watching my friends perform, but I did not particularly like being called \u201clittle missy\u201d or watching set after set with no people of color, no women\/queer or gender non-conforming people. As conversations about racial, gender and sexual hierarchies began to overlap between my studies and my social circles, I began to learn more about (and continue to witness firsthand) the hierarchical and oppressive nature of this scene and of punk in general \u2013 and was enraged at the hypocrisy of such inequity within in a supposedly politically \u201cprogressive\u201d scene. A quantitative research project that I did on racial and gender breakdowns at a series of local shows inspired me to pursue a deeper understanding of these overlapping systematic inequalities. Dr. Mel Lewis\u2019 Black Queer Studies class, which\u2014as the name implies\u2014 focused on the intersecting nature of oppressions as they applied to black queer folks, provided a theoretical background with which I could explore the histories of blackness and queerness in punk. This project was a fun and interesting one, as it allowed me to align my academic interests with my personal ones\u2014but that made it equally frustrating, because by being involved in such a scene I was directly implicated in its politics. What I especially appreciated in writing this paper, however, was the ability (and, in many cases, the necessity) to step outside of the academic world and incorporate sources like documentaries, zines, and personal narratives into my research\u2014providing slightly more nuanced perspectives that are reflective of the punk scene itself, and of resistance to it.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/files\/2018\/01\/Quinci-Adams-WS002.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Quaring&#8221; the Scene: Negotiating Black Queer Identity in the Punk Community<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyrights of all Verge articles and editorial material belong to the authors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Quinci Adams From the Author: &#8220;Over the course of my four years at Goucher I developed ties to Baltimore\u2019s DIY punk scene. As do most punks who are not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-863","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":938,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/863\/revisions\/938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}