The Lonely Letters Audiobook Libro.fm

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In The Lonely Letters A tells Moth Writing about and thinking with joy is what sustains me daily It nourishes me I do not write about joy primarily because I always have it I write about joy Black joy because I want to generate it I want it to emerge I want to participate in its constant unfolding

But alongside joy A admits to Moth come loneliness exclusion and unfulfilled desire The Lonely Letters is an epistolary blackqueer critique of the normative world in which Ashon T Crawleywriting as Ameditates on the interrelation of blackqueer life sounds of the Black church theology mysticism and love Throughout his letters A explores blackness and queerness in the musical and embodied experience of Blackpentecostal spaces and the potential for platonic and erotic connection in a world that conspires against blackqueer life

Both a rigorous study and a performance The Lonely Letters gestures toward understanding the capacity for what we study to work on us to transform us and to change how we inhabit the world