All the Rage addresses everyday pleasure as well as the persistent condition of racism in the USA—a time marked both by recurring police violence and intense artistic creativity. At its core dwells the 'Living in the Abattoir' series, set in an alternate yet familiar world, in which people of color live in an abattoir as both workers and meat. All the Rage addresses the contemporary realities of life in the USA from a variety of perspectives: being a black person, an immigrant, a woman, and queer. The title All the Rage simultaneously invokes both anger at ongoing, systemic violence and the frivolity of something that is, perhaps temporarily, “trending.”
*Author has served on the boards of: LGBTQ+ Museum (not open yet), Digital Library of the Caribbean, and CLAGS (Center for Lesbian & Gay Studies), Audre Lorde Project, and more *Author is the creative editor of sx salon, which appears three times a year *Author is a leading scholar of Caribbean LGBTQ+ life and culture and author of the award-winning scholarly monograph Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination.
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