Black trans feminism

Summary: "In Black Trans Feminism Marquis Bey offers a meditation on blackness and gender nonnormativity in ways that recalibrate traditional understandings of each. Theorizing black trans feminism from the vantages of abolition and gender radicality, Bey articulates blackness as a mutiny against racializing categorizations; transness as a nonpredetermined, wayward, and deregulated movement that works toward gender's destruction; and black feminism as an epistemological method to fracture hegemonic modes of racialized gender. In readings of the essays, interviews, and poems of Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Jayy Dodd, Venus Di'Khadija Selenite, and Dane Figueroa Edidi, Bey turns black trans feminism away from a politics of gendered embodiment toward a conception of it as a politics grounded in fugitivity and the subversion of power. Together, blackness and transness actualize themselves as on the run from gender. In this way, Bey presents black trans feminism as a mode of enacting the wholesale dismantling of the world we have been given"--

Record details

ISBN: 9781478022428
ISBN: 1478017813
ISBN: 9781478017813
ISBN: 1478015179
ISBN: 9781478015178
Physical Description: xiv, 290 pages ; 23 cm.
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Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Abolition, Gender Radicality -- Black, Trans, Feminism -- Fugitivity, Un/gendered -- Trans/figurative, Blackness -- Feminist, Fugitivity -- Questioned, Gendered -- Trigger, Rebel -- Hope, Fugitive.