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...V Varun Chaudhry Abstract This essay works at the intersection of black feminism and trans studies to reflect on the radical possibilities for the futures of transgender studies and politics. Drawing on ethnographic data with a large-scale LGBTQ service organization, and focusing specifically...

... understand, move within, and intersect black, trans, and feminist studies. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 black trans fugitivity travesti transfeminism black feminism Brazilian African diaspora In 2014, when I did a summer visit from the United States to Rio de Janeiro...

... that focalize the writing, activism, and performance work of trans women of color. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 transmisogyny transmisogynoir Black feminism women-of-color feminism intersectionality We are living in a moment in which it is common practice among trans activists...

... a vision of a black trans* studies that acknowledges twentieth-century black feminist thought as its primary genealogy. For Ellison et al., the move to make black feminism the intellectual center of black trans* studies not only resists black women's persistent erasure from institutional narratives...

... a pattern with the abstraction of the Google Earth imaging of the murder location, and black trans dance artist Aísha Noir's performance in the honorary dress as a collaborator with Vaughan for Project 42 installations. What follows is a political reflection at the intersection of black feminism, economic...

...V. Jo Hsu Abstract This essay considers Monica Roberts's long-standing blog, TransGriot , as a model of T4t love-politics. Drawing from Jennifer Nash's work on Black feminism, the author argues that TransGriot centers interpersonal and intra- and intercommunal relationships as driving forces...

... 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...

... for dreaming a different future, a future that keeps alive the liberatory potential of black feminism and Third World solidarity and liberation ( Wynter 1984 : 21). Tranifesting, as an epistemic operation, is meant to call attention to the ways in which black feminism and transgender studies are similarly...

... formulation flattens these histories. Black feminists' pivotal interrogations of the explicitly racial limitations of the category womanhood instruct why trans studies has refused to reckon with the untranslatability of femme queen as a category of analysis. Black feminisms theoretically reformulate...

... creation, not simply self-making. Recent scholarship, characterized by TSQ 's “Issue of Blackness,” suggests that movement toward a Black trans*/studies might in fact be a movement of return—to the foundational work of Black feminism. This move to center Black feminist thought, through citational...

... for transgender studies to more thoroughly engage its many shared investments with Black feminisms. They encourage using the shared tools of Black feminisms and transgender studies to form strategies of transformation “to move beyond mere theorizing.” As Green and Ellison explain, “Tranifesting enacts...

.... , 249 – 65 . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Alexander M. Jacqui . 2006 . Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Brewer Rose M. 2020 . “ Black Feminism and Womanism .” Companion...

... and Feeling Bad . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Nash Jennifer . 2013 “Practicing Love: Black Feminism, Love‐Politics, and Post‐intersectionality .” Meridians 11 , no. 2 : 1 – 24 . https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.11.2.1 . Nash Jennifer . 2019 . Black Feminism...

..., and this problematic is the philosophical melding of black feminism and black trans studies. In other words, black feminism (in particular the groundbreaking work of Spillers) provides a path, or a philosophical opening, for the deconstructive work of black trans studies. As Kai M. Green and Treva Ellison state, both...

... grandiose approach seems to require a blithe bypassing of decades of intersectional political struggle. The absence of black feminism in Females is too striking to go unmentioned. Generations of black feminist scholars have tackled questions concerning gender, embodiment, and universalism. None...

... the exclusionary politics that characterizes some of my social world in Chiapas as being not innocent of, or separated from, the erasure of blackness. This is not to say that black feminism has necessarily always been trans inclusive (in fact, within the multiplicity of black feminisms, trans exclusion has often...

... to the field of transgender studies and its practitioners: why, in its processes of institutionalization and canon formation, has transgender studies, another “theory in the flesh,” been so remiss in acknowledging women-of-color feminisms—black feminisms in particular—as a necessary foundation for the field's...

... on several decades' worth of critique from woman-of-color, Third World, and Black feminisms surrounding the question of what “feminism” may accrue in different cultural moments. Ultimately, we argue that, in our specific moment, eschewing celebratory narratives of feminism as an incontrovertible political...

...Gloria Wekker References Alexander M. Jacqui . 2005 . Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Clark Hine Darlene . 1989 . “ Rape and the Inner Lives of Black Women in the Middle West...

... an intimate lens to frame analyses of language, of power. Black feminisms’ assiduous attentions to the power of grammars were pioneered by Hortense Spillers ( 2003 ) at the 1982 Barnard Conference on Sexuality when she remarked, “Black women are the beached whales of the sexual universe, unvoiced, misseen...