The Black Period

The Black Period is a groundbreaking memoir by an acclaimed poet, exploring the intersection of Blackness, Islam, disability, and queerness. Through lyrical prose and haunting visuals, Hafizah Augustus Geter reclaims her origin story as the queer daughter of a Muslim Nigerian immigrant and a Black American visual artist, celebrating the many layers of her existence that America has sought to erase. She weaves her personal narrative with history, political analysis, and cultural criticism, addressing the systems of inequity that make life difficult for non-able-bodied persons, queer people, and communities of color while capturing a world brimming with potential, art, music, hope, and love. This unique combination of memoir and Afrofuturist thought sidesteps shame, confronts disability, embraces forgiveness, and emerges from America's erasures to exist proudly and unabashedly as herself.