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Black Trans Feminism

AUTHOR Bey, Marquis
PUBLISHER Duke University Press (02/25/2022)
PRODUCT TYPE Paperback (Paperback)

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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.
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ISBN-13: 9781478017813
ISBN-10: 1478017813
Binding: Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language: English
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Page Count: 304
Carton Quantity: 40
Product Dimensions: 6.00 x 0.70 x 8.90 inches
Weight: 0.95 pound(s)
Feature Codes: Bibliography, Index
Country of Origin: US
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Social Science | LGBTQ+ Studies - Transgender Studies
Social Science | Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Bl
Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory
Dewey Decimal: 305.420
Library of Congress Control Number: 2021015695
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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.
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