Circuits of the Sacred: Faggotology in the Black Latinx Caribbean, a visionary study of transnational Black Caribbean immigrant queer life and spirit, which thinks of Blackness through the metaphor of the “circuit.”

Decena will read from and discuss the memoiristic parts of his latest publication, Circuits of the Sacred: Faggotology in the Black Latinx Caribbean, a visionary study of transnational Black Caribbean immigrant queer life and spirit, which thinks of Blackness through the metaphor of the “circuit.” In Circuits of the Sacred Decena turns to memoir, ethnography, analysis, and fiction to reckon with his own individual experience of racially-marked upward mobility, gay male coming of age, and family building.  A reception will follow the conversation.