... materialism premised on thinking about trans embodiment outside of trans as subject position, the materialism of objects and commodities, and a historical materialism shaped by queer of color critique. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 trans studies racial capitalism materialism...

... interdisciplinary prospect, and the contributors call on disability studies, trans studies, Black studies, women-of-color feminism, visual culture, and the history of sexuality, generating emergent concepts, including crip-of-color critique (Kim), binary-abolitionist praxis (Stryker), a “trans-mad” aesthetic...

..., inspires us to revisit briefly a polemic otherwise (somewhat gratefully) absent from these pages. We refer to the so-called antirelational thesis in queer theory, especially insofar as it inspired a particularly trenchant response from queer of color critique. In some ways, the invitation that objectless...

... of the white, middle-class, cisgendered subject of queer theory. 26 Calling for a shift away from queer theory’s traditional focus on the Euro-American male, Muñoz and others develop the framework of queer-of-color critique. Significantly, for Roderick A. Ferguson, who is often credited with inventing...

... of recognition that rely on such elisions. There is a tension between the desires for trans of color positions to become conceivable and their bare inconceivability critiquing and upending that which seems conceivable. Biden’s remarks foreshadow the steep...

... such as Shreya Ila Anasuya responded that South Asian feminist academia and activism were highly hierarchical and exclusive to begin with, echoing the long-standing critiques of white, Western, and imperial feminism by women of color and postcolonial feminists. 20 Dalit Bahujan writers and activists...

... in a special GLQ issue on “Queer Studies and the Crises of Capitalism,” Marxism and political-economic analysis have long been deployed in the foundational texts of the study of sexuality. Moreover, queer of color critique “ups the ante on traditional approaches to economic questions.” 6 Despite this, how...

... that communicate our sense of history’s possibilities. —Vincent Brown, “Mapping a Slave Revolt” In the 1770s, Captain John Stedman, while traveling through Suriname, happened upon three “slaves” being taken in chains to be killed. One was Neptune, a free man of color, a carpenter, “young and handsome.” He...

... resilience frameworks help us identify structural inequities, particularly among trans women of color, I consider here how we might rethink concepts like risk and care. Specifically, rather than approach risk as something we do, we can view risk as applied to bodies or practices viewed as morally...

.... These are the conditions of the present: we all are now presumably intersectional; we all appear to care about trans (and now, we might add, of color) bodies and deaths, and indeed, black lives do matter (we all have and wear the T-shirts); we all appear to analyze race, gender, sexuality, and class, and, to a growing...

... with community.51 Capécia’s novel tells the story of a woman, Mayotte, who decides that she will marry a white man because of the hardships women of color face. She never marries, but is impregnated by her white lover, who then abandons her. Literary critics...

... — for instance, the “qualities of pure color, line” — become subject to the plan and the imperatives of utility and production against any “unorganized arbitrari- ness.”27 As Deleuze and Guattari observe, Constructivism, in keeping with Bolshevik...

... from “women of color studies.” Indeed, Hancock illumi- nates, intersectionality can be practiced (and can produce “gains”) for those with no theoretical or political interest in women of color. Similarly, Choo and Ferree emphasize that intersectionality’s future is in its tran- scendence of black...

... their loss. C. Riley Snorton and Jin Haritaworn describe this dynamic for trans-of-color deaths, whose loss is usually flattened for larger deracialized and neoliberalized understandings of transgenderness. 1 With the amnesiac effects from multicultural accounts of history, publics don’t fully feel...

...Jared Sexton This article offers a critique of the concept of “people of color,” highlighting a form of blindness to the singularity of racial slavery internal to its articulation. It pursues a theoretical itinerary that reads the radical black feminism of Saidiya Hartman and Hortense Spillers...

... veterans and hypohabilitation for diabetic communities of color and veterans with psychological and cognitive dis- abilities. Rehabilitation is a concept that has been critiqued in disability studies inasmuch as it produces a horizon of restitution...

... was conceptually generated through transings of human and animal. Nineteenth-and twentieth-century experiments in transspecies plasticity resonated with the older discourses of natural history, which we might recast as preoccupied with the species plasticity of nonwhite natives and apes. If natives of color...

...- cussion of neoliberal political economies of the family to pursue a “queer of color” critique of his petition for asylum. In Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique, the theorist Roderick Ferguson argues...

... and linguistic divides, offers a way to think anew about the relationship between queer and trans decolonial connections and collaboration beyond the binary divide. References Byrd Jodi . Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2011...

... of school by ableism and racism. Reforms often merely tinker with existing harmful conditions, failing to reach the root causes. 1 For example, police departments might begin to hire cops of color or gay or trans cops, but the functions of police violence remain the same. 2 A slight procedural change...