Inspired by Lyle Ashton Harris’ Ektachrome Archive, in which from 1986 to 1996 Harris recorded the intimate lives and works of his surrounding radical queer arts and activist community (mainly in New York City), in this course we will go in search of a queer of color cultural history of the 1980’s and early 1990’s (the kinship structures, artistic works, and theoretical texts of cultural workers like Hilton Als, Renee Cox, Vaginal Davis, Thelma Golden, Essex Hemphill, bell hooks, Marlon Riggs, and others, all of which are present in Harris’ archive), a cultural history that both transformed the queer politics, theory, and aesthetics of its time, as well as laid the foundations for the contemporary scene of queer social life we find ourselves in today.

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