Ekemini Ekpo Wrote About A New Queer Bookstore in Crown Heights
For Urban Omnibus, Ekemini Ekpo wrote about the opening of The Nonbinarian, a new queer bookstore, near her apartment. The article examines “the specter of racial gentrification in Crown Heights.”
Ekpo writes, “The Nonbinarian takes up a lot of space in my mind, because it takes up a lot of visual space in my commute.”
The piece also mediates on how the definition of queerness has changed over the years.
Ekpo writes, “My feelings for the Nonbinarian can best be described as a massive metaphorical question mark, hanging in the air above 1130 President Street and held aloft by mercurial sentiment and bald contradiction.”
Ekpo’s writing has appeared in New York Review of Architecture, TheBody, and other outlets.
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