Description
| Product ID: | 9781478017813 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study |
| Title: | Black Trans Feminism |
| Authors: | Author: Marquis Bey |
| Page Count: | 304 |
| Subjects: | Social and cultural history, Social & cultural history, Feminism and feminist theory, Ethnic studies, Feminism & feminist theory, Ethnic studies |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Marquis Bey offers a meditation on blackness and gender nonnormativity in ways that recalibrate traditional understandings of each, conceiving of black trans feminism as a politics grounded in fugitivity and the subversion of power. 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, and Venus Di’Khadijah Selenite, Bey turns black trans feminism away from a politics of gendered embodiment and 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Duke University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Duke University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-02-25 |
