... Pérez's ( 1999 ) influential formulation of a “decolonial imaginary” and, in doing so, implicitly ask what a “transgender imaginary” might be, how it is related to processes of colonization, and how—in theory as well as practice—it might be decolonized. The “imaginary,” a concept derived originally...

... lens. The insight we draw precisely from decolonial feminisms, Indigenous studies, and trans of color theory is to understand “theory” differently: not as knowledge that issues from within the academy or that aspires to academic recognition but that invents itself on the fly, in the midst of a campaign...

...), is how to find these knowledge productions and how to actually use them in ways that are not appropriating. Madina Tlostanova ( 2017 : 28) suggests looking at decolonial art to rethink the “body-political” and “geo-political” in order to prevent “Western theory always taking the default position...

...Mel Michelle Lewis Abstract This article coins the term Intersex Justice Pedagogy and outlines this practice as a decolonial and intersectional teaching and learning praxis that affirms bodily integrity and bodily autonomy as the practice of liberation for intersex people of color. The author...

... and Sullivan 2009 ), decolonial feminisms, critical race theory, and critical trans studies work within enriching and yet incomplete frameworks of hybridity and intersectionality. Pointing beyond these epistemologies, in this essay I enact transing methodologies by performing epistemic disobedience...

... of knowledge. It is also a reminder, as Macarena Gómez-Barris ( 2017 : 126) writes, to recognize when and how “local vernaculars of struggle” might get “run through the machine of North American theories, abstracting from local conditions of possibility and constraints” as a form of extractivism. Such cautions...

... Proust, in favor of an uneasy blending of statements concerning the self in poetry, literature, theater, photography, and zines, using an apparent hodgepodge of techniques from psychoanalysis, to queer theory, to decolonial theory, and beyond. The difference in source material is related...

... transformation and crisis. By reading Shock's poem in English alongside contemporary Latin American feminist writing, I foreground both the historical depth of the monstrous in decolonial discourse, as well as the intersecting ideas within trans* poetics and feminist theory. Indeed, reading these texts...

..., such trans* politics reconstitutes and consolidates the colonial idea of Europe as the locus of “modernity,” “progress,” and as the “cradle of democracy.” As postcolonial and decolonial theory have shown (see for example Spivak 1988 , 1990 ; Mohanty 1988 ; Bacchetta and Haritaworn 2001 ; Massad 2007...

... of nepantla communicate the necessity of decolonizing limited perceptions of reality to embody different worlds and to reconstruct identities fragmented by twenty-first-century manifestations of colonial histories (Anzaldúa 2015 ). The decolonial methods created by Driskill and Anzaldúa contend...

... Chicana/o studies. In doing so Cuevas employs critical jotería studies, which creates a bridge for dialogue between Chicanx cultural studies and queer theory. In conceptualizing a post-borderlands subjectivity, Cuevas is influenced by Emma Pérez's ( 1999 ) idea of the “decolonial imaginary,” which...

...” into conversation with recent black feminist critiques of disciplinarity and representation to imagine again how a black trans* studies rooted in black feminism might take shape in the university today. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 black trans* studies black feminist theory decolonial...

...Eddy Francisco Alvarez, Jr. Abstract This essay is based on the fashion choices, negotiations, and embodied knowledge or “theories in the flesh” of Bamby Salcedo and other trans Latinas in Los Angeles. Their experiences and memories are instrumental in the development of “finding sequins...

..., antiracist, and decolonial scholarship given the interconnectedness of capitalism with heteropatriarchy and colonialism. Feminist political economy (FPE) works to dislodge the “masculine mythology” ( Ferber and Nelson 1993 ) underlying economic theorizations of modernity that devalue femininity by deploying...

... people and intersex people of color? Have theories of intersectionality shaped IJP's outlook and approach? Wall : My desire for founding IJP was to create a safe space for me and people like me to be supported. Most organizations in the United States are not capable of supporting Black leadership...

... as it emerges in a tradition of Indigenist and decolonial thought. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 Indigenous studies queer studies trans studies In February 2020, Indigenous queer and trans studies became available as part of the Indigenous studies major in the Bachelor of Arts...

...), as a person, and as a trans/queer scholar-activist, the concept opens up (rather than forecloses) various ways of rethinking power and relationships. In my current work, I look at how my own positionality as an oʻiwi mahu ethnographer articulates a decolonial space for rethinking ethnographic...

... of inferiority and dehumanization. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 transfeminism decolonial thought Brazilian travestis When asked what she thought about the idea of transfeminism as a contemporary political movement for the achievement of the social rights of travestis in Brazil...

... spatiality. In Mobile Subjects: Transnational Imaginaries of Gender Reassignment , Aren Z. Aizura argues that the dominant cultural narratives of gender transition in mainstream popular discourse and scholarly theories tend to conform to chrononormativity and linear time. There's often an uncritical...

... Kent Monkman's paintings, for instance, effectively (if unexpectedly) recuperates Stravinsky and Nijinsky's The Rite of Spring within the scope of contemporary decolonial studies (“the text becomes bewildering to its intended viewers and useful to its decolonizing heirs,” 66). Chapter 3...