Tag: John Champagne
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Queer Black Italy and the Politics of Experience
I recently took an invaluable and enlightening course designed to help instructors add material on Italians of African descent — or what is increasingly called Black Italy—to the Italian Studies curriculum. The course was a rich resource of information on many aspects of Black Italy, from its history to its presence in contemporary culture. In…
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Apocalyptic Sex
Beyond building a robust and reliable sourdough starter and finally being able to play Chopin’s G minor ballade to its bravura conclusion, the most positive if surprising circumstance to come out of my COVID-19 quarantine is a reinvigorated marital sex life. My husband and I have been together for some fourteen years, and, even before…