Black trans feminism

by Bey, Marquis

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Title Statements

Full title :Black trans feminism / Marquis Bey.

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"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2022.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Duke University Press
Place of Publication:Durham
Language:eng
Publication Date:2022.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xiv, 290 pages)

Edition Identifiers

oclc:on1321046242
LC Classification:HQ1410
Dewey Decimal:305.4201

Abolition, Gender Radicality -- Black, Trans, Feminism -- Fugitivity, Un/gendered -- Trans/figurative, Blackness -- Feminist, Fugitivity -- Questioned, Gendered -- Trigger, Rebel -- Hope, Fugitive.

Subjects

African American feminists African American feminists -- History Black people -- Race identity Feminism Feminism -- United States Féminisme -- États-Unis Féministes noires américaines -- Histoi… Gender Identity History Identité sexuelle Queer theory Sex role SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist T… Social Science / LGBTQ+ Studies Théorie queer United States