...Eva S. Hayward Abstract This note represents an effort to think together Afro-pessimism and trans studies. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 transsexual cut Afropessimism ontology psychoanalysis “Don't exist” is an imperative, a sanctioned foreclosure. “Don't exist...

... , no. 1 . csalateral.org/issue/1/ante-anti-blackness-afterthoughts-sexton/ . Sexton Jared , 2016 . “ Afro-Pessimism: The Unclear Word .” Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge , no. 29 . www.rhizomes.net/issue29/pdf/sexton.pdf . Solanas Valeria . 1965 . Up Your Ass...

... a speculative function in foregrounding the problem of black ontology. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Afro-pessimism gender ontology We can theorize, we can meditate on black suffering, we can experience the violence, we're marked. But we cannot be . . . since the idea of being...

... to reckon with the contributions of Black feminism and Black queer studies to this line of thought. The frameworks of the posthuman, Afro-pessimism, and Afro-optimism/Black ops each attempt to think through the problematic of “the human” and humanism; each often makes its theoretical gambits by eliding...

... Press 2019 In trans studies, there is nothing like the rich conversations about queer temporalities that took place in queer theory in the mid-aughts, or like the recent debates over Afro-pessimism in black studies, both of which owe a lot to polemics (Edelman 2004 ; Wilderson 2010...