Title Feels right : black queer women and the politics of partying in Chicago / Kemi Adeyemi

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 177 pages) Contents Slo 'Mo and the Pace of Black Queer Life -- Where's the Joy in Accountability? Black Joy at Its Limits -- Ordinary ENERGY -- An Oral History of the Future of Burnout Summary "In Feels Right Kemi Adeyemi presents an ethnography of how black queer women use dance to assert their physical and affective rights to the city. Adeyemi stages the book in queer dance parties in gentrifying neighborhoods, where good feelings are good business. But feeling good is elusive for black queer women whose nightlives are undercut by white people, heterosexuality, neoliberal capitalism, burnout, and other buzzkills. Adeyemi documents how black queer women respond to these conditions: how they destroy DJ booths, argue with one another, dance slowly, and stop partying altogether. Their practices complicate our expectations that life at night, on the queer dance floor, or among black queer community simply feels good. Adeyemi's framework of "feeling right" instead offers a closer, kinesthetic look at how black queer women adroitly manage feeling itself as a complex right they should be afforded in cities that violently structure their movements and energies. What emerges in Feels Right is a sensorial portrait of the critical, black queer geographies and collectivities that emerge in social dance settings and in the broader neoliberal city."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter platform, viewed January 17, 2024) Subject Nightlife -- Illinois -- Chicago Sexual minority culture -- Illinois -- Chicago African American sexual minority women -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions Communication and sex -- Illinois -- Chicago Queer theory -- Illinois -- Chicago SOCIAL SCIENCE -- LGBTQ Studies -- Lesbian Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- American -- African American & Black Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies. Sexual minority culture Queer theory Nightlife Communication and sex Black lesbians Black LGBTQ+ people Black queer people Queer women Illinois -- Chicago Form Electronic book ISBN 9781478023319 1478023317

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