Black Picket Signs/White Picket Fences: Racism, Space, and Solidarity

Black Lives Matter. The matter of skin and bone, of material and emotive bodies exist in spatial and temporal worlds that determine their political vitality. This piece of writing discusses the racialization of queerness as a set of spatial practices that bar Blackness from entry into nationalist queer zones of being/belonging, thus supporting white supremacy. It thereby intervenes in mainstream discussions regarding queer space and queer world-making, which often identify white queer subjects as being marginal to nationalist discourse and nationalist branding. Discussing processes of queer world-making that blur divisions between the public and the private, Lauren Berlant and Michael