Zenzele Isoke publishes essay in upcoming Queer Newark

January 26, 2024 The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Zenzele Isoke poses in front of green and orange foliage next to an image of the cover of Queer Newark

"Remembering Sakia, Remembering Ourselves" to appear as epilogue in new anthology from Rutgers University Press

Dr. Zenzele Isoke's "Remembering Sakia, Remembering Ourselves" will be published as the epilogue of Queer Newark: Stories of Resistance, Love, and Community, a collection of essays and oral history excerpts charting the queer history of New Jersey's largest city.

Queer Newark is inspired by the Queer Newark Oral History Project, a community-based and community-directed oral history project dedicated to preserving the history of LGBTQ people and communities in Newark, New Jersey. For more information about the book and pre-order the that inspired it, visit the Rutgers University Press website.

Congratulations Dr. Isoke!