Darius Bost
Biographic Data
| ID | 1002296 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Darius Bost |
| GIVEN NAMES | Darius |
| FAMILY NAME | Bost |
| SIGNATURE | BOST D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Black Arts South/Queer Arts South
The Black Gay Male Image under Siege
This essay discusses Isaac Julien's film Looking for Langston alongside 1980s Black British political culture, in which visual culture played a significant part. Focusing on the role of the image in that time and place, the article reads the embodied performances of waiting, use of the montage, and constructed scenes of Black queer lifeworlds, past and present, as challenging the linear modes of temporality that have confined Black politics to a …
Hip-hop's Early Introduction to Sex
In the first two decades of the twenty-first century, there were several stories in the popular media about Black men's and boys’ experiences of childhood sexual violence. Though this media attention is noteworthy given the stereotypes of Black men as hypermasculine and hypersexual that have positioned Black men as beyond the pale of public sympathy, stories of Black male sexual victimization can also traffic in narratives of deviance. This artic…
Ezili's Mirrors
In this multivocal, lyrical text, one of the most important thinkers in Black feminist and queer diaspora studies, Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley, explores how historical, literary, and popular cultural
Black Lesbian Feminist Intellectuals and the Struggle against HIV/Aids
This essay examines the significance of the work of three black lesbian feminist intellectuals--Cathy Cohen, Evelynn Hammonds, Linda Villarosa--to intellectual genealogies of HIV/AIDS. Since the early era of the AIDS epidemic, these scholars have challenged dominant and indigenous discourses of HIV/AIDS through traditional and public forms of scholarship. Working across an array of disciplines, they have helped us to understand the disproportiona…
Interview with Celeste Watkins-Hayes
1) In the book you discuss how you arrived at this project back in 1999, after interviewing a black woman who was living with HIV while you were a research assistant for the Welfare, Children, and
Guest Editors' Note
Souls Forum
Marlon M. Bailey and Darius Bost: We have brought this group together because we know that your varying perspectives will produce a robust conversation. Thank you again for your participation, and
The Calendar of Loss
Reviewed by: The Calendar of Loss: Race, Sexuality, and Mourning in the Early Era of AIDS by Dagmawi Woubshet Darius Bost (bio) Woubshet, Dagmawi. The Calendar of Loss: Race, Sexuality, and Mourning in the Early Era of AIDS. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. In his beautifully conceived The Calendar of Loss: Race, Sexuality, and Mourning in the Early Era of AIDS, Dagmawi Woubshet explores how a range of disenfranchised mourners dur…
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The Calendar of Loss
Reviewed by: The Calendar of Loss: Race, Sexuality, and Mourning in the Early Era of AIDS by Dagmawi Woubshet Darius Bost (bio) Woubshet, Dagmawi. The Calendar of Loss: Race, Sexuality, and Mourning in the Early Era of AIDS. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. In his beautifully conceived The Calendar of Loss: Race, Sexuality, and Mourning in the Early Era of AIDS, Dagmawi Woubshet explores how a range of disenfranchised mourners dur…
Ezili's Mirrors
In this multivocal, lyrical text, one of the most important thinkers in Black feminist and queer diaspora studies, Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley, explores how historical, literary, and popular cultural
Black Lesbian Feminist Intellectuals and the Struggle against HIV/Aids
This essay examines the significance of the work of three black lesbian feminist intellectuals--Cathy Cohen, Evelynn Hammonds, Linda Villarosa--to intellectual genealogies of HIV/AIDS. Since the early era of the AIDS epidemic, these scholars have challenged dominant and indigenous discourses of HIV/AIDS through traditional and public forms of scholarship. Working across an array of disciplines, they have helped us to understand the disproportiona…
Interview with Celeste Watkins-Hayes
1) In the book you discuss how you arrived at this project back in 1999, after interviewing a black woman who was living with HIV while you were a research assistant for the Welfare, Children, and
Guest Editors' Note
Souls Forum
Marlon M. Bailey and Darius Bost: We have brought this group together because we know that your varying perspectives will produce a robust conversation. Thank you again for your participation, and
Hip-hop's Early Introduction to Sex
In the first two decades of the twenty-first century, there were several stories in the popular media about Black men's and boys’ experiences of childhood sexual violence. Though this media attention is noteworthy given the stereotypes of Black men as hypermasculine and hypersexual that have positioned Black men as beyond the pale of public sympathy, stories of Black male sexual victimization can also traffic in narratives of deviance. This artic…
The Black Gay Male Image under Siege
This essay discusses Isaac Julien's film Looking for Langston alongside 1980s Black British political culture, in which visual culture played a significant part. Focusing on the role of the image in that time and place, the article reads the embodied performances of waiting, use of the montage, and constructed scenes of Black queer lifeworlds, past and present, as challenging the linear modes of temporality that have confined Black politics to a …
Black Arts South/Queer Arts South
Sociology (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (3 works) · Human sexuality (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works)