This article briefly traces the fraught relationship between feminism, sexuality studies, and black feminism. I argue that as sexuality studies, through “Thinking Sex” in particular, began to follow feminism's lead—yoking blackness to a history separate from that of feminism's historical grounding—we have moved further from an exploration of blackness's centrality in queer studies discourse about the body and its erotic desires.

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