anton nimblett’s tough and tender reimaginings of the queer black atlantic

Written by Randi Gray Kristensen for Small Axe on Monday, February 28th, 2022

Anton Nimblett is just such a storyteller. Reading—and rereading—these stories brings deeply satisfying pleasures, in language, landscapes, entanglements, and disentanglements. In particular, they reawaken regions of Black queer possibility and invite abandon that is at once joyful, truthful, and beautiful. Dive in.