“Unfiltered and Unapologetic: Discover the Provocative Journey of a Queer Black Voice in Brathwaite’s ‘Rage’!”
Lester Fabian Brathwaite inhabits an intersection — a mother lode of bias — where racism, homophobia (and therefore misogyny), ableism, and xenophobia collide. Thankfully for his readers, he writes through that experience with brutally honest yet also laugh-out-loud prose.
Rage: On Being Queer, Black, Brilliant… and Completely Over It is a memoir-in-essays, and Mr. Brathwaite leads off with an essay that considers his internalized racism, titled “Fucking White Boys.” The writing here encapsulates much of what I fell in love with when reading Rage. There is literary criticism—the author dissects writers like James Baldwin and Richard Bruce Nugent, a queer participant in the Harlem Renaissance—and there is self-analyzing memory. There, too, is cultural criticism.
