The Lonely Letters – Ashon T. Crawley Free Audiobook

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Ashon T. Crawley
Narrator
Benjamin Charles
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264.94 MBs
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MP3
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64 Kbps
Language
English
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Written by Ashon T. Crawley
Read by Benjamin Charles
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

In The Lonely Letters, A tells Moth: “Writing about and thinking with joy is what sustains me, daily. It nourishes me. I do not write about joy primarily because I always have it. I write about joy, Black joy, because I want to generate it, I want it to emerge, I want to participate in its constant unfolding.”

But alongside joy, A admits to Moth, come loneliness, exclusion, and unfulfilled desire. The Lonely Letters is an epistolary Blackqueer critique of the normative world in which Ashon T. Crawley – writing as A – meditates on the interrelation of Blackqueer life, sounds of the Black church, theology, mysticism, and love. Throughout his letters, A explores blackness and queerness in the musical and embodied experience of Black Pentecostal spaces and the potential for platonic and erotic connection in a world that conspires against Blackqueer life.

Both a rigorous study and a performance, The Lonely Letters gestures toward understanding the capacity for what we study to work on us, to transform us, and to change how we inhabit the world.

Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
Release date: 02-22-22

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