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TSQ (2019) 6 (4): 521–538.
Published: 01 November 2019
...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...
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TSQ (2019) 6 (2): 210–222.
Published: 01 May 2019
... that are not considered normative is where trans feminism and black feminism meet. In this sense fugitivity is a refusal of systems that keep us captive to situations that oppress us. For black and trans people, that refusal comes in the form of persisting in having a connection with ourselves and our communities...
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TSQ (2017) 4 (2): 226–242.
Published: 01 May 2017
... Black women can enact transmisogyny is not an argument against the idea that all Black women and men face transmisogyny because trans people can enact transphobia and transmisogyny on themselves. The standard framing of the genealogy of trans feminism has prioritized the academy as the site of trans...
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TSQ (2020) 7 (3): 427–444.
Published: 01 August 2020
... 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...
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TSQ (2022) 9 (2): 266–288.
Published: 01 May 2022
... 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...
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TSQ (2022) 9 (1): 101–118.
Published: 01 February 2022
...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...
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TSQ (2017) 4 (2): 162–169.
Published: 01 May 2017
... 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...
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TSQ (2014) 1 (1-2): 222–225.
Published: 01 May 2014
... 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...
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TSQ (2023) 10 (1): 16–22.
Published: 01 February 2023
... 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...
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TSQ (2022) 9 (1): 84–100.
Published: 01 February 2022
... 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...
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TSQ (2020) 7 (3): 421–426.
Published: 01 August 2020
... 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...
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TSQ (2022) 9 (2): 255–263.
Published: 01 May 2022
..., Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred , Black feminist and Afro-Caribbean lesbian writer, teacher, Indigenous spiritual practitioner, and activist M. Jacqui Alexander ( 2006 : 8) writes, Pedagogies thus pertains to what we are prepared to teach...
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TSQ (2017) 4 (2): 266–274.
Published: 01 May 2017
..., 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...
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TSQ (2020) 7 (3): 332–344.
Published: 01 August 2020
... 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...
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TSQ (2016) 3 (1-2): 58–64.
Published: 01 May 2016
... 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...
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TSQ (2017) 4 (2): 159–161.
Published: 01 May 2017
... 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...
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TSQ (2022) 9 (3): 311–333.
Published: 01 August 2022
... 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...
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in From Queering to Trans*imagining: Sookee's Trans*/Feminist Hip-Hop
> TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly
Published: 01 May 2016
Figure 1, above. Sookee, quing of Berlin, visually coded in purple and black, the colors of anarcha-feminism. Photos courtesy of www.sookee.de
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TSQ (2020) 7 (1): 140–147.
Published: 01 February 2020
... and the Inner Lives of Black Women in the Middle West .” Signs 14 , no. 4 : 912 – 20 . Davis Angela Y. 1999 . Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday . New York : Random House . Halberstam Judith . 1998 . Female Masculinity...
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TSQ (2021) 8 (2): 238–256.
Published: 01 May 2021
... : Palgrave . Carby Hazel . (1982) 1997 . “ White Woman Listen! Black Feminism and the Boundaries of Sisterhood .” In Materialist Feminism: A Reader in Class, Difference, and Women's Lives , edited by Hennessy Rosemary and Ingraham Chrys , 110 – 28 . New York : Routledge...
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