Darnell L. Moore

Darnell L. Moore
Born (1976-01-24) January 24, 1976
Camden, New Jersey U.S.
Nationality American
Occupation Writer, activist
Years active 1999-present
Website Darnell L. Moore

Darnell L. Moore (born January 24, 1976)[1] is an American writer and activist whose work is informed by anti-racist, feminist, queer of color, and anti-colonial thought and advocacy.[2] Darnell's essays, social commentary, poetry, and interviews have appeared in various national and international media venues, including the Feminist Wire,[3] Ebony magazine,[4] and The Huffington Post.[5]

Early life and education

Moore was born in Camden, New Jersey.

More received his B.A. in Social and Behavioral Science from Seton Hall University, an M.A. in Clinical Counseling from Eastern University, and an M.A. in Theological Studies from Princeton Theological Seminary.

Career

Moore was appointed by Mayor Cory Booker as inaugural Chair of the city of Newark, New Jersey LGBT Concerns Advisory Commission, the first of its kind in the state of New Jersey.[6][7][8][9] He is the co-chair, with Beryl Satter, of the groundbreaking Queer Newark Oral History project—an archival project that seeks to chronicle the multifaceted lives of LGBTQ Newarkers and their allies.

Moore's scholarship focuses broadly on Black Theology and Black Christian thought that is inclusive of queer subjectivities. He has published peer-reviewed essays that attempt to queer Black Christian thought in Black Theology: An International Journal, Theology & Sexuality, and Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies. He was a member of the Beyond Apologetics colloquium organized by theologians Joretta Marshall and Duane Bidwell, which brought together scholars/pastors centered on the themes of sexual identity, pastoral theology, and pastoral practice. Moore was also a selected participant in the 2012 Seminar on Debates on Religion and Sexuality convened by theologian Mark Jordan at Harvard Divinity School.

He is an Editorial Collective Member of the Feminist Wire[10] and co-author, with former NFL player Wade Davis, II, of a bi-monthly column on The Huffington Post Gay Voices focused on black manhood and queer politics titled "Tongues Untied."[11] Moore has served appointments as a visiting fellow at Yale Divinity School and a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at New York University[12][13] and has served as a Lecturer at Rutgers University and The City College of New York (CUNY). Moore is a board member of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at CUNY and The Tobago Center for Study and Practice of Indigenous Spirituality. He has interviewed Frank Mugisha,[14] Steve Harper,[15] Cheryl Clarke (Lambda Literary),[16] Amiri Baraka[17] and Mayor Cory Booker. Moore is part of the Audre Lorde Human Rights Speaker Series at The Sexuality, Gender & Human Rights Program at Harvard Kennedy School, CARR Center for Human RIghts Policy[18]

Moore's memoir, No Ashes in the Fire, was released in 2018.[19]

Editing

In 2013 he edited the book Astor Place – Broadway – New York about a barber shop, one of the last stores remaining from the 1940s in Lower Manhattan, with photographs by Nicolaus Schmidt.

He is working on a co-edited anthology which examines the intersections and convergences within America's contemporaneous moments of radical protest, an essay collection, and book on Black queer Christian thought.

Citations

  • Moore's Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality talk cited in Carolyn Poljski, Coming Out, Coming Home or Inviting People In? Supporting same-sex attracted women from immigrant and refugee communities, 2011.
  • Moore's work on "complex relationships between race and sexuality in the black community" cited in Patrick S. Cheng's Radical Love: An Introduction to Queer Theology, 2011.[20]

Theoretical contributions

"Intralocality" is a theoretical perspective conceptualized by Moore. Moore employs intralocality as an analytic that extends Kimberle Crenshaw's theory of intersectionality. According to Moore, "Borrowing from sociologists, the term 'social location,' which broadly speaks to one's context, highlights one's standpoint(s)—the social spaces where s/he is positioned (i.e., race, class, gender, geographical, etc.) Intralocality, then, is concerned with the social locations that foreground our knowing and experiencing of our world and our relationships to the systems and people within our world. Intralocality is a call to theorize the self in relation to power and privilege, powerlessness and subjugation. It is work that requires the locating of the 'I' in the intersection. And while it could be argued that such work is highly individualistic, I contend that it is at the very level of self-in-relation-to-community where communal transformation is made possible."

Palestinian solidarity work

  • In January 2012, Moore visited Israel and the Palestinian territories as a member of the first US LGBTQ Delegation to Palestine organized by scholar/activist Sarah Schulman.
  • Moore is a member of the International Committee on Queer BDS and Pinkwashing for World Social Forum 2013.[21][22]

Personal life

Moore lives in Brooklyn.

Honors and awards

  • 2012: American Conference on Diversity, Humanitarian Award – for his advocacy in the city of Newark where he served as Chair of the LGBTQ Concerns Advisory Commission under the auspices of Mayor Cory A. Booker[23]
  • 2012: Rutgers University LGBTQ and Diversity Resource Center, Outstanding Academic Leadership Award – with Prof. Beryl Satter, for their work on developing the Queer Newark Oral History Project[24][25]
  • First Annual Episcopal Diocese of Newark's Dr. Louie Crew Scholarship for individuals and groups working "at the intersection of sexuality and faith."[26]

Works and publications

Books

  • Schmidt, Nicolaus; Moore, Darnell L.; Walz, Udo (2013). Moore, Darnell L., ed. Astor Place, Broadway, New York: a universe of hairdressers = Astor Place, Broadway, New York: ein Universum der Friseure (in German and English). Bielefeld, Germany: Kerber. ISBN 978-3-866-78806-0. OCLC 1016978689.
  • Moore, Darnell L. (2018). No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America. New York: Nation Books. ISBN 978-1-568-58834-6. OCLC 1035947395.

Articles

  • Moore, Darnell L. (8 December 2012). "Premeditated Manslaughter: Notes From a Black Male Suicide Survivor". Gawker.
  • Atshan, Sa’ed; Moore, Darnell L. (2014). "Reciprocal Solidarity: Where the Black and Palestinian Queer Struggles Meet". Biography. University of Hawaii Press. 37 (2): 680–705. doi:10.1353/bio.2014.0033.
  • Moore, Darnell L. (2 October 2015). "Don't Pity the Subject Being Smashed, Rage at the Object Doing the Smashing". PEN America.
  • Moore, Darnell L. (5 October 2015). "The Disregarded Consequences of Gentrification in This New York City Neighborhood". Mic.
  • Moore, Darnell L. (23 October 2015). "Urban Spaces and the Mattering of Black Lives". The Nature of Cities.
  • Moore, Darnell L. (30 May 2018). "Lost in the Blinding Whiteness of My First Semester of College". Literary Hub.

References

  1. ↑ "Darnell L. Moore". Ubuntu Biography Project. 2018-01-24. Retrieved 2018-07-04.
  2. ↑ Noah, Trevor; Moore, Darnell L. (28 June 2018). "Darnell L. Moore - Rethinking Gender and Sexuality in "No Ashes in the Fire" - Extended Interview - The Daily Show with Trevor Noah (Video Clip)" (Video interview). The Daily Show. Comedy Central.
  3. ↑ The Feminist Wire, Darnell L. Moore
  4. ↑ Ebony.com, Darnell L. Moore
  5. ↑ The Huffington Post, Darnell L. Moore.
  6. ↑ Newark Pride Alliance Citizen Council, Newark’s LGBT Advisory Commission | Darnell Moore, January 29, 2010.
  7. ↑ Newark Legistar, Darnell Moore, appointment.
  8. ↑ LGBTQ Advisory Board, Essex County, NJ.
  9. ↑ Shelley Emling, Officers Killing of Defarra Gaymon Sparks New County Level Advisory. August 12, 2010.
  10. ↑ Darnell Moore. Feminist Wire, November 15, 2011.
  11. ↑ Tongues Untied. Huff Post Gay Voices, July 6, 2012.
  12. ↑ Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, Darnell Moore, Visiting Scholar.
  13. ↑ Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality New York University, Coming Out, or, Inviting In?: Reframing Disclosure Paradigms.
  14. ↑ Darnell Moore, An Interview with Frank Mugisha, LGBT Freedom Fighter in Uganda, November 14, 2011.
  15. ↑ Steve Harper.
  16. ↑ Darnell Moore, The Never-Ending Resource that is Black Queerness, July 6, 2011.
  17. ↑ Darnell L. Moore, Crossings and Departures: An Interview with Cheryl Clarke and Amiri Baraka in Newark, September 15, 2011.
  18. ↑ "Audre Lorde Human Rights Speaker Series: A conversation with writer and activist Darnell L. Moore". Harvard.edu. November 7, 2012.
  19. ↑ Oluo, Ijeoma (August 8, 2018). "Black, Gay and Becoming Visible". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  20. ↑ Patrick S. Cheng, Radical Love: An Introduction to Queer Theology.
  21. ↑ Signatory of the letter from the 1st US delegation of LGBTQ folk to Palestine, Queer Solidarity with Palestine.
  22. ↑ On charges of Anti-Semitism and Palestinian Solidarity Activism.
  23. ↑ Photos from Essex County Humanitarian Awards Dinner.
  24. ↑ Queer Newark History Project.
  25. ↑ Our Stories, Queer Newark, Our Stories.
  26. ↑ Christian Paolino, The OASIS honors Dr. Louie Crew, presents first annual scholarship and grant. June 4, 2012.

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