Black Funk

Destined to be a book that will be discussed, admired, quoted, cited, and taught for decades, Conjuring Black Funk: Notes on Culture, Sexuality, and Spirituality, Volume I (Vintage Entity Press), is finally available for purchase with two hot as hell covers. Check them out below.

This is the first book by Dr. Herukhuti and a fiery collection of essays, poetry, creative non-fiction, and experimental writing that challenges conventional thought, offers alternative perspectives, and suggests ways of practicing Afrocentric, queer liberation/transgression. This book is an important contribution to Black Queer Theory, Black Feminist Thought, and Afrocentric Thought. Noted writer, social critic, and queer theorist, Samuel R. Delany contributed a great foreword to the book.

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The Trans Cover

The Sister Cover
Cover Art by Charly Dominguez
Cover Design by Flat Foot Designs

Praise for the book:

“What a book! Hugely informative, often surprising, consistently thought-provoking and completely lacking in shame or pretense, it's the kind of book you wish you'd written yourself but are very, very happy to have read.” - Robert Fullilove, EdD, Professor and Associate Dean, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

“I am engaged by the compelling insights of this feminist/womanist pomo afro homo on the intentional practice of sex, culture, and spirit. Whether you be bisexual, versatile, gay, top, trans, man, woman, str8, bottom, on the DL or an old black dyke like me, you will want to get into Conjuring Black Funk.” - Cheryl Clarke, PhD, Director of Office of Social Justice Education and LGBT Communities, Rutgers University and Author of The Days of Good Looks: Prose and Poetry, 1980-2005

“Dr. Herukhuti uses ingredients to prepare a new recipe for the 21st century diet. If they hunger for something more than the typical fast food served as Black thought, it is a meal that Afrocentric beings will find very nourishing. His advocacy for the complete and total sexual freedom of consenting human beings has the taste of a new epistemology. He is a gatekeeper to a sacred banquet of sex, sin and Spirit that few are ready to acknowledge; let alone eat.” - Ron Simmons, PhD, President/CEO, Us Helping Us, Washington DC

“Conjuring Black Funk is an intricate and frank collection of essays by a scholar bravely defining an experiential modality for black liberation that does not extract our bodies and pleasures from the revolutionary equation.... Herukhuti's adherence to asserting his voice, his experience, his generously non-gym conformed sexy body, front and center to his "conjuring," is what makes Conjuring Black Funk a critical Queer Theory and Cultural Studies text.” - Tim’m West, Author of Flirting

“Conjuring Black Funk stands as the funkiest piece of writing on Black sexuality and sexual cultures to come out in the last ten years....[it] attempts to take on the restrictions of academic communities and cultural communities that could potentially impede sexual decolonization, as well as create a bridge between the two communities’ discourses....Conjuring Black Funk brings a spiritual intonation to the concept of theory and offers an intellectual categorization of conjuring.” - LaMonda Horton Stallings, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Florida and Author of Mutha is Half a Word!: Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture

“...delivers a fresh, uncompromising critique of dominant Black attitudes and behaviors as well as the institutions that shape them. But the juicy fruit is the assortment of tools it bears for our liberation through self affirmation and our resistance to oppressing each other as we have been oppressed.” - Craig Washington, Activist and Editor of www.craigwerks.com

"...engages gender and sexuality while providing the critical race critique I need.... [Dr. Herukhuti] figures out the trick that most queer lefties don’t—how to write critical work about sex that still arouses sexual desire and imagination in the reader (I was turned on several times while reading it)." - Kenyon Farrow for The Indypendent

The message is clear: It's time for a change. And a change has arrived.


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