What is a (Black) Faggot? Cinema, Exorbitance, and Moonlight's Metaphysical Question

Moonlight, as a cinematic mode of thinking, presents a terrifying question: What is a (black) Faggot? This destructive question provides a paradigm for thinking blackness without being. In this meditation, I suggest the (black) faggot is the exorbitance of thinking sexuality and humanism, blackness and being, queerness and anti-blackness. To be a (black) faggot is a mode of non-being redoubled, an existence we struggle to understand with the philosophical resources at our disposal. Through a close reading of the film, I limn the depths of blackness nihilism—the condition of inhabitation without being, sexuality, humanity, justice, and redress. The (black) faggot, then, is much more than onomastic destruction or injurious speech; its purpose is to absorb the terror of onto-metaphysics and, for this reason, it is absolutely indispensable.