Introduction: the timeliness of I Am Not Your Negro;1. I Am Not Your Negro’s queer poetics of identity and omission; 2. James Baldwin’s embodied absence: I Am Not Your Negro and filmic corporeality; 3. "Some One of Us Should Have Been There with Her": gender, race, and sexuality in I Am Not Your Negro and contemporary Black experimental documentary; 4. James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket (1989) and I Am Not Your Negro (2016)as historicist documentaries; 5. Techniques for truth-telling from Haitian Corner to I Am Not Your Negro