Circuits of the Sacred

In <i>Circuits of the Sacred</i> Carlos Ulises Decena examines transnational black Latinx Caribbean immigrant queer life and spirit. Decena models what he calls a <i>faggotology</i>-the erotic in the divine as found in the disreputable and the excessive-as foundational to queer black critical and expressive praxis of the future. Drawing on theoretical analysis memoir creative writing and ethnography of Santería/Lucumí in Santo Domingo Havana and New Jersey Decena moves between languages locations pronouns and genres to map the itineraries of blackness as a circuit a multipronged and multisensorial field. A feminist pilgrimage and extended conversation with the dead Decena's study is a provocative work that transforms the academic monograph into a gathering of stories theoretical innovation and expressive praxis to channel voices ancestors deities theorists artists and spirits from the vantage point of radical feminism and queer-of-color thinking.