Black Trans Feminism

Black Trans Feminism reimagines traditional understandings of blackness and gender nonnormativity by theorizing blackness as a mutiny against racializing categorizations, transness as a nonpredetermined, wayward, and deregulated movement, and black feminism as an epistemological method to fracture hegemonic modes of racialized gender. It presents black trans feminism as a mode of enacting the wholesale dismantling of the world we have been given.

Format: Hardback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 19 February 2022
Publisher: Duke University Press

Marquis Bey offers a profound exploration of blackness and gender nonconformity, challenging traditional notions and recalibrating our understanding of both. Through the lens of abolition and gender radicality, Bey theorizes black trans feminism, highlighting blackness as a rebellion against racial categorizations, transness as a fluid and decentralized movement aimed at dismantling gender norms, and black feminism as an epistemological approach to challenge dominant modes of racialized gender. By examining the essays, interviews, and poems of Alexis Pauline Gumbs, jayy dodd, and Venus DiKhadijah Selenite, Bey redirects black trans feminism away from a focus on gendered embodiment and towards a politics rooted in fugitivity and the subversion of power. Together, blackness and transness manifest as an escape from gender constraints, presenting black trans feminism as a transformative mode of enacting the wholesale dismantling of the world as we know it.

Weight: 544g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781478015178