Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Abolition, Gender Radicality 1
Part 1
1. Black, Trans, Feminism 37
2. Fugitivity, Un/gendered 66
3. Trans/figurative, Blackness 88
Part 2
4. Feminist, Fugitivity 115
5. Questioned, Gendered 145
6. Trigger, Rebel 175
Conclusion: Hope, Fugitive 199
Notes 229
Bibliography 263
Index 283
Marquis Bey is Assistant Professor of African American Studies and English at Northwestern University and author of The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Gender, Anarcho-Blackness: Notes toward a Black Anarchism, and Them Goon Rules: Fugitive Essays on Radical Black Feminism.
“In Marquis Bey's deeply creative and fiercely imaginative book,
Black trans feminism describes a kind of worldly inhabitation and a
radical form of theorizing power and refusal in ways that are not
contingent on identity. In Bey's hands, Black trans feminism
becomes a powerful call for vulnerability, fugitive hope,
abolition, and freedom. Black Trans Feminism allows us to gesture
to all that we want from this world but do not yet know how to
name.”
*Birthing Black Mothers*
“In its deep engagements with the three movements of its title,
Black Trans Feminism is a very exciting book to read, digest, and
think through. Marquis Bey’s focus on fugitivity and the elastic
category of the fugitive stealing themself back is a highly
salient and timely conceptual offering, and I’m astonished by the
clarity, precision, and deep-digging that Bey brings to the
material. Those working at the interstices of Black trans feminism
need this gift of manifest lucidity to reference, teach, and
expound on.”
*Shimmering Images: Trans Cinema, Embodiment, and the Aesthetics of
Change*
“Black Trans Feminism constitutes an incisive critique and
interrogation of the very grammars of gender normativity. . . .
With this project, he attempts to reconfigure how we understand
kinship, blackness, transness and Black feminism in order to
establish a coalition that can be understood as a broadening of
kinship network relationalities, affinities and affiliations.”
*European Journal of American Culture*
"Bey’s work is an important contribution to the conversations
surrounding race, transgender identity, and feminist praxis,
providing a hopeful mode for reimagining our world and ourselves. .
. . Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty."
*Choice*
“Black Trans Feminism is a deep philosophical and literary
exploration of Black trans feminism. . . . The book offers critical
and imaginative visions of gender radical and abolitionist futures.
Bey tell us how we can possibly get there with a sense of hope that
is so rare in academic writing.”
*American Quarterly*
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