Queer dance floors have long thrived at the edges of imagination, a place to invent new ways of gathering, a place to imagine other ways of bending space andtime, a way to exist at the borders and edges of feeling. Broken into a series of fragments, or samples, this talk underscores queer nightlife as a site ofimagination and as a method of living in and through the violence and five-alarm fire of Black queer life.

madison moore is an artist-scholar, DJ and Assistant Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. He is broadly invested in the aesthetic, sonicand spatial strategies queer and trans people of color use to both survive and thrive in the five alarm fire of everyday life. His first book Fabulous: The Rise of theBeautiful Eccentric (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018), offers a cultural analysis of fabulousness as a practice of resistance.