p. 1), for me, 'queerness is essentially about [...] an insistence on potentiality or concrete possibility for another world'. And of course, for black queers, survival has always been about finding ways to connect some of what is disconnected, to embody and re-member. Collections such as E. Patrick Johnson and Mae G. Henderson's Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology, Jennifer DeVere Brody and Dwight A. McBride's 'Plum Nelly: New Essays in Black Queer Studies' (a special issue of Calalloo: A Journal of African and African-American Arts and Letters) and a number of other works have already drawn the lineages of black queer studies. 'Plum Nelly' and black queer studies each emerge in different ways from the Black Queer Studies in the Millennium Conference (2000), organized by Johnson at the University of North Carolina (Boggs, 2000). Black queer studies more or less followed the parameters of the conference, focusing on blacks in the United States of America, with Rinaldo Walcott's contribution pushing at these borders from Canada, a 'queer place in diaspora'. However, Michelle Wright and Antje Schuhmann's collection Blackness and Sexualities, which emerges from the Europe-based Collegium for African-American Research and was published in Germany, broadens the geographic and thematic scopes of the black queer studies project, to Europe (and Cuba), as well as to themes that are not strictly LGBTQ. Each of these works, characterized by insurgent re-readings of classical or otherwise well-known texts, reclamation of intellectual traditions, and writing into the scholarly record subjects otherwise relegated to the margins, at once cleared and claimed space (Battle and Barnes, 2010; Page and Richardson, 2010).