Table Of ContentSeries Page Page: Cover Page
Title Page Page: iii
Copyright Page: iii
Dedication Page: iv
Contents Page: v
Acknowledgments Page: vii
Introduction: Abolition, Gender Radicality Page: xiv
Part 1 Page: 33
1. Black, Trans, Feminism Page: 35
2. Fugitivity, Un/gendered Page: 65
3. Trans/figurative, Blackness Page: 87
Part 2 Page: 112
4. Feminist, Fugitivity Page: 113
5. Questioned, Gendered Page: 144
6. Trigger, Rebel Page: 174
Conclusion: Hope, Fugitive Page: 198
Notes Page: 228
Bibliography Page: 262
Index Page: 281
Description: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.