Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal<\/a> is joined via Skype\u00a9 by E. Patrick Johnson, author of Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South; an Oral History. A Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University, Johnson\u2019s ethnographic work on this book evolved into a play called Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Tales. Johnson shares his motivation to turn his book into a play, and also discusses how his journey through these projects helped him better come to terms with his own personal issues. He shares his reactions to the different responses he\u2019s gotten so far from to the stage performance. Johnson, whose play premiered in Chicago\u2019s About Face Theater and was recently staged at The Signature Theater in Arlington Virginia, also discusses the significance of the title.
Later Neal is joined by Honore\u00e9 Fannone Jeffers, poet, commentator, satirist, blogger and professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. Jeffers, author of several collections of poetry including The Gospel of Barbecue and Red Clay Suite, discusses her blog Phillis Remastered and her work-in-progress on the 18th century poet Phillis Wheatley. In a wide ranging conversation, Neal and Jeffers also discuss the legacy of Aishah Shahidah Simmons\u2019 groundbreaking film NO! The Rape Documentary, the Slut Walk protest & the concept of Post-Black. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype\u00a9 by E. Patrick Johnson, author of Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South; an Oral History. A Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University, Johnson\u2019s ethnographic work on this book evolved into a play called Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2251,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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