Black 'quare' studies in the United States of America have focused on 'making an intervention at home', as Johnson and Henderson remind us. ${ }^{5}$ Recently, examinations of African, Caribbean, Canadian, European and Latin American literature and film have revealed that this theme is indeed global: 'home' as a site of ambivalence and potential 'conflama' (a United States black gay vernacular composite connoting confusion and drama), yet at the same time somehow constituting Hemphill's 'place that will be worth so much effort and love'. It  
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[^0]:    5 'Quare' of course refers to E. Patrick Johnson's important intervention in Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology, which first appeared in 2001: "Quare" Studies, or (Almost) Everything I Know about Queer Studies I Learned from My Grandmother'. Text and Performance Quarterly, No. 21, pp. 1-25.