Dr. Della Mosley Delivers Lecture on Facilitating Black Queer Futures

Della Mosley, Ph.D., discussed how to apply the Critical Consciousness of Anti-Black Racism Model as a framework for radical healing as part of the Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing (ISGMH) Current Issues in LGBTQ Health Lecture Series on August 11. Her messaging was warm, yet challenging.

Through a moving talk titled "Facilitating Black Queer Futures: Applying the Critical Consciousness of Anti-Black Racism Model,"  Dr. Mosley proposed that anti-Black racism work that also intersects with LGBTQ+ identities can simultaneously exist in a place of challenge as well as a place of radical liberation and healing.

When discussing how to center anti-Black racism, she highlighted the relationships among power, oppression, and liberation, in addition to resistance, by recognizing how they all have an affect on Black queer folx at the personal/individual, relational, and community/collective levels.

Specifically related to queer anti-Black racism, she asked attendees to ponder the following reflective questions: (1) Do you center Black queer folx in your work? (2) How do you center Black queer folx in your work? (3) How do you celebrate/enable Black queer joy? and (4) How do we sustain ourselves so that we can focus on the anti-racist work we want to do?