Mounted: On Horses, Blackness, and Liberation Kel Menton Charlie has been assigned the

Charlie has been assigned the worst roommate in the world (possibly the universe): Jasper Grimes

reissued here for the first time

Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry

She still bears the scars from that night

every last heartbreaking piece in the puzzle of his life

Mounted: On Horses, Blackness, and Liberation Kel Menton Charlie has been assigned theJoining the growing Black creative movement currently refashioning horses and cowboy imagery, a thoughtful, probing exploration of the shared history of Blackness and horses which reveals what its image can teach us about nationhood, race, and culture. Drawing on their personal history as a former urban equestrian, Black queer person, and child of Jamaican and Filipino immigrants, essayist and art critic Bitter Kalli contends the horse should be