featured in picturing black history (in collaboration with getty images)
Being featured in Picturing Black History: Photographs and Stories That Changed the World was an incredible honor. My piece, “Love is the Message: Blackness, Queerness and Disco,” explores how disco culture became a vital space of joy, identity, and belonging for Black and queer communities — then and now. It’s a celebration of the ways dance floors became places where people could fully be themselves, and how that legacy continues to resonate today. Scroll down to learn more about how to get the book!
“An astonishing work, Picturing Black History offers a trove of both famous and unseen photos with brief, poignant accompanying essays to show not only the centrality of Black people to American history but also how African Americans used the photographer’s lens to tell their own stories. The editors, authors, and Getty images have created a beautiful book that stands on its own as a work of art, a veritable museum in print.”
—HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University
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