“The Fantasy of Queerness”: A Conversation with Roger Q. Mason about Lavender Men: An Emancipation Play and Making a Queer of Color Creative Life in Theater and Performance

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Research Article| October 01 2020 “The Fantasy of Queerness”: A Conversation with Roger Q. Mason about Lavender Men: An Emancipation Play and Making a Queer of Color Creative Life in Theater and Performance Eric Darnell Pritchard Eric Darnell Pritchard Eric Darnell Pritchard is an award-winning writer, cultural critic, and the Endowed Brown Chair in English Literacy at the University of Arkansas. They are also faculty at the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College. Pritchard is author of Fashioning Lives: Black Queers and the Politics of Literacy (Southern Illinois University Press, 2016) and editor of “Sartorial Politics, Intersectionality, and Queer Worldmaking,” a special issue of QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking (Michigan State University Press, 2017). Pritchard’s writings on fashion, popular culture, literacy, rhetoric, and pedagogies have been published in multiple venues including the International Journal of Fashion Studies, Harvard Educational Review, Visual Anthropology, Literacy in Composition Studies, Public Books, Ebony.com, ARTFORUM, and The Funambulist: Clothing Politics Issue 1 and Issue 2. They are currently completing two books: a biography of 1980s international fashion superstar Patrick Kelly and a historical ethnography of Black queer feminist literacy activism.Roger Q. Mason is an award-winning writer, performer and educator known for using history’s lens to highlight the biases that separate rather than unite us. Mason’s playwriting has been seen on Broadway at Circle in the Square (Circle Reading Series); Off/Off-Off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop, New Group, American Theatre of Actors, Flea Theatre, and Access Theater; and regionally at McCarter Theatre, Victory Gardens, Chicago Dramatists, Steep Theatre, Serenbe Playhouse, EST/LA, Son of Semele, and Skylight Theatre. He/ they are the recipient of the Chuck Rowland Pioneer Award, the Hollywood Fringe Festival Encore Producers Award, and a finalist for the Lark Playwright’s Week and the Screencraft Play Award. Mason’s films have screened at Outshine Film Festival and the Pan African Film Festival. They’ve been recognized by the AT&T Film Award and Atlanta International Film Festival. He/they hold degrees from Princeton University, Middlebury College, and Northwestern University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking (2020) 7 (3): 63–101. https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.7.3.0063 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Eric Darnell Pritchard; “The Fantasy of Queerness”: A Conversation with Roger Q. Mason about Lavender Men: An Emancipation Play and Making a Queer of Color Creative Life in Theater and Performance. QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking 1 October 2020; 7 (3): 63–101. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.7.3.0063 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressQED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2020 Michigan State University2020 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.