Darnell L. Moore | |
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| Born | January 24, 1976 |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, activist |
| Years active | 1999-present |
Darnell L. Moore (born January 24, 1976) [1] is an American writer and activist whose work is informed by anti-racist, feminist, queer of color, and anti-colonial thought and advocacy. [2] Darnell's essays, social commentary, poetry, and interviews have appeared in various national and international media venues, including the Feminist Wire, [3] Ebony magazine, [4] The Huffington Post , [5] The New York Times, [6] and The Advocate . [7]
Moore is an Editorial Collective Member of the Feminist Wire [8] and co-author, with former NFL player Wade Davis, II, of a bi-monthly column on The Huffington Post Gay Voices focused on black manhood and queer politics titled "Tongues Untied." [9] Moore has served appointments as a visiting fellow at Yale Divinity School and a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at New York University [10] [11] and has served as a Lecturer at Rutgers University and The City College of New York (CUNY). Moore is a board member of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at CUNY and The Tobago Center for Study and Practice of Indigenous Spirituality. He has interviewed Frank Mugisha, [12] Steve Harper, [13] Cheryl Clarke (Lambda Literary), [14] Amiri Baraka [15] and Mayor Cory Booker. Moore is part of the Audre Lorde Human Rights Speaker Series at The Sexuality, Gender & Human Rights Program at Harvard Kennedy School, CARR Center for Human RIghts Policy [16]
Moore's memoir, No Ashes in the Fire , a “critically-acclaimed memoir about growing up black and queer in New Jersey in the ’80s”, was released in 2018. [17] [18] The book was selected as A New York Times Notable Book of the Year [19] and won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Memoir/Biography. [20]
Moore is now a Director of Inclusion for Content and Marketing at Netflix. [21] He hosts the podcast, Being Seen, which focusses on the gay and queer Black male experience. [22]
Moore is queer. [26]