In his direct and eye-opening book, Fashioning Lives: Black Queers and the Politics of Literacy , Eric Darnell Pritchard shows Black Queers as “subjects of literacy, not objects of inquiry that literacy [acts] upon” who, through participation in literate practices, give meaning to literacy and enact love for self and community (35). He begins the process of filling a major gap within the field of literacy, composition, and rhetoric by exposing the literacy narratives of previously silenced Black LGBTQ people.