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Darnell L. Moore (born January 24, 1976) is an American writer and activist whose work is informed by
anti-racist Anti-racism encompasses a range of ideas and political actions which are meant to counter racial prejudice, systemic racism, and the oppression of specific racial groups. Anti-racism is usually structured around conscious efforts and delibera ...
,
feminist Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideology, ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social gender equality, equality of the sexes. Feminism holds the position that modern soci ...
, queer of color, and
anti-colonial Decolonization is the undoing of colonialism, the latter being the process whereby imperial nations establish and dominate foreign territories, often overseas. The meanings and applications of the term are disputed. Some scholars of decolon ...
thought and advocacy. Darnell's essays, social commentary, poetry, and interviews have appeared in various national and international media venues, including the ''Feminist Wire'',''The Feminist Wire''
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Career

Moore is an Editorial Collective Member of the Feminist WireDarnell Moore.
''Feminist Wire,'' November 15, 2011.
and co-author, with former NFL player Wade Davis, II, of a bi-monthly column on
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Gay Voices focused on black manhood and queer politics titled "Tongues Untied."Tongues Untied.
''Huff Post Gay Voices,'' July 6, 2012.
Moore has served appointments as a
visiting fellow In academia An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary education. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of ...
at
Yale Divinity School Yale Divinity School (YDS) is one of the twelve graduate and professional schools of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Congregationalist theological education was the motivation at the founding of Yale, and the professional school has ...
and a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at
New York University New York University (NYU) is a private university, private research university in New York City, New York, United States. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin as a Nondenominational ...
Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
Darnell Moore, Visiting Scholar.
Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality New York University
Coming Out, or, Inviting In?: Reframing Disclosure Paradigms.
and has served as a Lecturer at
Rutgers University Rutgers University ( ), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of three campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's C ...
and The
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(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 Frank Mugisha (born 17 June 1979) is a Ugandan LGBT advocate and Executive Director of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), who has won the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award and Thorolf Rafto Memorial Prize 2011 for his activism. Mugisha is one of ...
,Darnell Moore
An Interview with Frank Mugisha, LGBT Freedom Fighter in Uganda
November 14, 2011.
Steve Harper,Steve Harper.
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Cheryl Clarke Cheryl L. Clarke (born Washington D.C., May 16, 1947) is an American lesbian poet, essayist, educator, and Black feminist community activist. Her scholarship focuses on African-American women's literature, black lesbian feminism, and the Black A ...
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Lambda Literary The Lambda Literary Foundation (also known as Lambda Literary) is an American LGBTQ literary organization whose mission is to nurture and advocate for LGBTQ writers, elevating the impact of their words to create community, preserve their legaci ...
),Darnell Moore
The Never-Ending Resource that is Black Queerness
July 6, 2011.
Amiri Baraka Amiri Baraka (born Everett Leroy Jones; October 7, 1934 – January 9, 2014), previously known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He was the author of numerous b ...
and Mayor
Cory Booker Cory Anthony Booker (born April 27, 1969) is an American politician serving as the Seniority in the United States Senate, senior United States Senate, United States senator from New Jersey, a seat he has held since 2013. A member of the Democ ...
. 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 Moore's memoir, '' No Ashes in the Fire'', a “critically-acclaimed memoir about growing up black and queer in New Jersey in the ’80s”, was released in 2018. The book was selected as A ''New York Times'' Notable Book of the Year and won the
Lambda Literary Award Lambda Literary Awards, also known as the "Lammys", are awarded yearly by Lambda Literary Foundation, Lambda Literary to recognize the crucial role LGBTQ+ writers play in shaping the world. The Lammys celebrate the very best in LGBTQ+ literatur ...
for Gay Memoir/Biography. Moore is now a Director of Inclusion for Content and Marketing at
Netflix Netflix is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service. The service primarily distributes original and acquired films and television shows from various genres, and it is available internationally in multiple lang ...
. He hosts the podcast, Being Seen, which focusses on the gay and queer Black male experience.


Citations

*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.Patrick S. Cheng
Radical Love: An Introduction to Queer Theology.
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Palestinian solidarity work

* Moore is a member of the International Committee on Queer BDS and Pinkwashing for
World Social Forum The World Social Forum (WSF, ) is an annual meeting of civil society organizations, first held in Brazil, which offers a self-conscious effort to develop an alternative future through the championing of counter-hegemonic globalization. The Worl ...
2013.Signatory of the letter from the 1st US delegation of LGBTQ folk to Palestine
Queer Solidarity with Palestine.

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Personal life

Moore is queer.


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. BookerPhotos fro
Essex County Humanitarian Awards Dinner.
/ref> * 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 ProjectQueer Newark History Project.
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/ref> * First Annual Episcopal Diocese of Newark's Dr.
Louie Crew Erman Louie Clay (né Erman Louie Crew Jr.) (1936–2019) was an American professor emeritus of English at Rutgers University. He was best known for his long and increasingly successful campaign for the acceptance of gay and lesbian people by ...
Scholarship for individuals and groups working "at the intersection of sexuality and faith."Christian Paolino
The OASIS honors Dr. Louie Crew, presents first annual scholarship and grant.
June 4, 2012.
* In June 2019, to mark the 50th anniversary of the
Stonewall Riots The Stonewall riots (also known as the Stonewall uprising, Stonewall rebellion, Stonewall revolution, or simply Stonewall) were a series of spontaneous riots and demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of ...
, sparking the start of the modern
LGBTQ rights movement Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) movements are social movements A social movement is either a loosely or carefully organized effort by a large group of people to achieve a particular goal, typically a social or politica ...
,
Queerty ''Queerty'' is an online magazine and newspaper covering gay- and LGBTQ-oriented entertainment and news, founded in 2005 by David Hauslaib. As of June 2015, the site had more than five million monthly unique visitors. History ''Queerty'' was ...
named him one of the Pride50 “trailblazing individuals who actively ensure society remains moving towards
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, acceptance and dignity for all
queer ''Queer'' is an umbrella term for people who are non-heterosexual or non- cisgender. Originally meaning or , ''queer'' came to be used pejoratively against LGBTQ people in the late 19th century. From the late 1980s, queer activists began to ...
people.


Works and publications


Books

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Articles

* * * * * * * Moore, Darnell L. (June 25, 2019
"The Gentrification of Queerness"
The Nation ''The Nation'' is a progressive American monthly magazine that covers political and cultural news, opinion, and analysis. It was founded on July 6, 1865, as a successor to William Lloyd Garrison's '' The Liberator'', an abolitionist newspaper ...
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See also

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LGBT culture in New York City New York City has been described as the gay village, gay capital of the world and the central node of the LGBTQ+ political sociology, sociopolitical ecosystem, and is home to one of the world's largest and most prominent LGBTQ+ populations. Br ...
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List of LGBT people from New York City New York City has been described as the gay village, gay capital of the world and the central node of the LGBTQ+ political sociology, sociopolitical ecosystem. It is home to one of the world's largest and most prominent LGBTQ populations. LGBTQ ...


References


Further reading


Uptown Social Magazine: Darnell L. Moore.
(feature).
Signified: Darnell Moore.
(documentary).


External links

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Where is your line? Inspiring Young Leaders to End Sexual Violence, Darnell Moore & Queer Newark Oral History Project.
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