2/25/18 review of book The Witch's Flight, by Kara Keeling

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of the book The Witch's Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense.

The thread gives a summary of the book and some background on Professor Keeling and how I learned of her. The thread discusses the book's exploration of how the cinematic helps people imagine futures, and how that imagining informs black cinematic identity. The thread discusses the book's exploration of queer black femininity and the butch-femme and straight-femme lesbian dynamic in cinema, as well as how cinema portrays the struggle for black femininity to survive in a society dominated by masculinity.

The tweets in some of my threads have been twisted out of chronological order by Twitter's platform. The coherency of this thread is moderately affected. My apologies.