[READING LIST]

CRITICAL RACE THEORY 

- Black Sexual Economies: Race and Sex in a Culture of Capital. Adrienne D Davis, 2019
- Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness. Simone Browne, 2015
- The Erotic Life of Racism. Sharon P. Holland, 2012
- They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South. Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, 2019
- Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body. Harvey Young, 2010
- Black Looks: Race and Representation. bell hooks, 2015
- Skin Acts: Race, Psychoanalysis, and the Black Male Performer. Michelle Ann Stephens, 2014
- Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America. Saidiya V. Hartman, 1997
- Black Skin White Masks, Frantz Fanon, 1952
- Venus in Two Acts, Saidiya Hartman, 2008
- Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom 1850-1910. Daphne A. Brooks, 2006

GENDER

- Vexy Thing: On Gender and Liberation. Imani Perry, 2018
- Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art. Lauren Elkin, 2023
- Glitch Feminism. Legacy Russell, 2020
- Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center. bell hooks, 1984
- The Story of Art Without Men. Katy Hessel, 2023

MEDIA STUDIES

- “69.” In Black Popular Culture: A Project by Michele Wallace. Arthur Jafa, 1992
- Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. Laura Mulvey, 1975
- Death 24x a Second. Laura Mulvey, 2006

PHOTOGRAPHY 

- Listening To Images. Tina M Campt, 2017
- Decolonising the Camera: Photography in Racial Time. Mark Sealy, 2019
- Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers, 1840 to the Present. Deborah Willis, W.W. Norton, 2000
- Archive Fever, Okwui Enwezor, 2008
- Deana Lawson's Kingdom of Restored Glory, Zadie Smith, 2018
- Picturing Us, Dr. Deborah Willis, 1994
- The Civil Contract of Photography; Potential History; The Captive Photograph, Ariella Aisha Azoulay, 2008

POETRY

- Postcolonial Love Poem. Natalie Diaz, 2020
- Grocery Shopping With My Mother. Kevin Powell, 2022
- Citizen: An American Lyric. Claudia Rankine, 2014

PORNOGRAPHY 

- Times Square Red, Times Square Blue. Samuel R Delany, 1999
- A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography. Mireille Miller-Young, 2014
- Power, Pleasure, and the “Frenzy of the Visible”. Linda Williams, 1999
- Porn Studies. Edited by Linda Williams, 2004
- The Peoples Porn: A History of Handmade Pornography in America. Lisa Z. Sigel, 2020
- Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism. Heather Berg, 2021
- The Black Body in Ecstacy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography. Jennifer C. Nash, 2014

SEXUALITY

- Brother to Brother. Essex Hemphill and Joseph Beam, 1991
- Hold Tight Gently. Martin Duberman, 2014
- Sexuality & Space. Edited by Beatriz Colomina, 1992
- Dragging, Or in the Drag of Queer Life. Shaka McGlotten, 2021
- Is the Rectum a Grave?, Leo Bersani, 2009
- Feeling Backward, Heather Love, 2007  
- A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women. Siri Hustvedt, 2016

STORIES

- Heavy: An American Memoir. Kiese Laymon, 2018
- The Forgetting Tree. Rae Paris, 2017
- Breathe: A Letter to my Sons. Imani Perry, 2019
- Giovanni’s Room. James Baldwin, 1956
- Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration. David Wojnarowicz, 1991

ONLINE RESOURCES

- UBU - an avant-garde art online resource
- Video Data Bank - an online resource for video by and about contemporary artists
- Library of Congress - prints and photographs catalog
- The Kinsey Institute - special collections online catalog

PODCASTS

- Sex and Psychology Podcast
- The Great Woman Artists Podcast
- Holly Randall Unfiltered
- Death of an Artist
- Photowork with Sasha Wolf
- Radiolab
- Stuff You Should Know
- The Messy Truth - Conversations on Photography