Black Trans Feminism (Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study) cover image

Black Trans Feminism (Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study)

Duke University Press
Marquis Bey
Regular price $108.00 USD
In stock

Shipping from our warehouses in the United States.

Pages
304 pp.
Language
English
Publisher
Duke University Press
Published
2022-02-25
Year
2022
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN
9781478015178
Dimensions
15.24 × 1.9 × 22.86 cm
Written by
Marquis Bey

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.

Title
Black Trans Feminism (Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study)
Author
Marquis Bey
Publisher
Duke University Press
Published
2022-02-25
Availability
In stock
Language
English
Pages
304 pp.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN-13
9781478015178
Editorial Egales
LES Editorial
Taschen Publishing
Taschen Dos Bigotes
Editorial Anagrama
Siete Islas Publishing
Editorial Planeta
Letraversal Poetry
Blackie Books
Editorial Alfaguara
LAVA