Black Trans Feminism

Author : Marquis Bey
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478022428

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Black Trans Feminism by Marquis Bey Pdf

In Black Trans Feminism Marquis Bey offers a meditation on blackness and gender nonnormativity in ways that recalibrate traditional understandings of each. Theorizing black trans feminism from the vantages of abolition and gender radicality, Bey articulates blackness as a mutiny against racializing categorizations; transness as a nonpredetermined, wayward, and deregulated movement that works toward gender’s destruction; and black feminism as an epistemological method to fracture hegemonic modes of racialized gender. In readings of the essays, interviews, and poems of Alexis Pauline Gumbs, jayy dodd, and Venus Di’Khadijah Selenite, Bey turns black trans feminism away from a politics of gendered embodiment and toward a conception of it as a politics grounded in fugitivity and the subversion of power. Together, blackness and transness actualize themselves as on the run from gender. In this way, Bey presents black trans feminism as a mode of enacting the wholesale dismantling of the world we have been given.

Author : Marquis Bey
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816539437

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Them Goon Rules by Marquis Bey Pdf

Marquis Bey’s debut collection, Them Goon Rules, is an un-rulebook, a long-form essayistic sermon that meditates on how Blackness and nonnormative gender impact and remix everything we claim to know. A series of essays that reads like a critical memoir, this work queries the function and implications of politicized Blackness, Black feminism, and queerness. Bey binds together his personal experiences with social justice work at the New York–based Audre Lorde Project, growing up in Philly, and rigorous explorations of the iconoclasm of theorists of Black studies and Black feminism. Bey’s voice recalibrates itself playfully on a dime, creating a collection that tarries in both academic and nonacademic realms. Fashioning fugitive Blackness and feminism around a line from Lil’ Wayne’s “A Millie,” Them Goon Rules is a work of “auto-theory” that insists on radical modes of thought and being as a refrain and a hook that is unapologetic, rigorously thoughtful, and uncompromising.

Author : Zakiya Luna,Whitney Pirtle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000452723

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Black Feminist Sociology by Zakiya Luna,Whitney Pirtle Pdf

Black Feminist Sociology offers new writings by established and emerging scholars working in a Black feminist tradition. The book centers Black feminist sociology (BFS) within the sociology canon and widens is to feature Black feminist sociologists both outside the US and the academy. Inspired by a BFS lens, the essays are critical, personal, political and oriented toward social justice. Key themes include the origins of BFS, expositions of BFS orientations to research that extend disciplinary norms, and contradictions of the pleasures and costs of such an approach both academically and personally. Authors explore their own sociological legacy of intellectual development to raise critical questions of intellectual thought and self-reflexivity. The book highlights the dynamism of BFS so future generations of scholars can expand upon and beyond the book’s key themes.

Author : Marquis Bey
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781849353762

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Anarcho-Blackness by Marquis Bey Pdf

Anarcho-Blackness seeks to define the shape of a Black anarchism. Classical anarchism tended to avoid questions of race—specifically Blackness—as well as the intersections of race and gender. Bey addresses this lack, not by constructing a new cannon of Black anarchists but by outlining how anarchism and Blackness already share a certain subjective relationship to power, a way of understanding and inhabiting the world. Through the lens of Black feminist and transgender theory, he explores what we can learn by making this kinship explicit, including how anarchism itself is transformed by the encounter. If the state is predicated on a racialized and gendered capitalism, its undoing can only be imagined and undertaken by a political theory that takes race and gender seriously.

Author : Catherine Knight Steele
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479808380

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Digital Black Feminism by Catherine Knight Steele Pdf

"This book traces the long arc of Black women's relationship with technology from the antebellum south to the social media era demonstrating how digital culture transforms and is transformed by Black feminist thought"--

Author : Jennifer C. Nash
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478002253

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Black Feminism Reimagined by Jennifer C. Nash Pdf

In Black Feminism Reimagined Jennifer C. Nash reframes black feminism's engagement with intersectionality, often celebrated as its primary intellectual and political contribution to feminist theory. Charting the institutional history and contemporary uses of intersectionality in the academy, Nash outlines how women's studies has both elevated intersectionality to the discipline's primary program-building initiative and cast intersectionality as a threat to feminism's coherence. As intersectionality has become a central feminist preoccupation, Nash argues that black feminism has been marked by a single affect—defensiveness—manifested by efforts to police intersectionality's usages and circulations. Nash contends that only by letting go of this deeply alluring protectionist stance, the desire to make property of knowledge, can black feminists reimagine intellectual production in ways that unleash black feminist theory's visionary world-making possibilities.

Author : Kyla Schuller
Publisher : Bold Type Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781645036883

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The Trouble with White Women by Kyla Schuller Pdf

An incisive history of self-serving white feminists and the inspiring women who’ve continually defied them Women including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger, and Sheryl Sandberg are commonly celebrated as leaders of feminism. Yet they have fought for the few, not the many. As award-winning scholar Kyla Schuller argues, their white feminist politics dispossess the most marginalized to liberate themselves. In The Trouble with White Women, Schuller brings to life the two-hundred-year counter history of Black, Indigenous, Latina, poor, queer, and trans women pushing back against white feminists and uniting to dismantle systemic injustice. These feminist heroes such as Frances Harper, Harriet Jacobs, and Pauli Murray have created an anti-racist feminism for all. But we don’t speak their names and we don’t know their legacies. Unaware of these intersectional leaders, feminists have been led down the same dead-end alleys generation after generation, often working within the structures of racism, capitalism, homophobia, and transphobia rather than against them. Building a more just feminist politics for today requires a reawakening, a return to the movement’s genuine vanguards and visionaries. Their compelling stories, campaigns, and conflicts reveal the true potential of feminist liberation. An Entropy Magazine Best Nonfiction Book of 2020-2021,The Trouble with White Women gives feminists today the tools to fight for the flourishing of all.

Author : Krista Scott-Dixon
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781894549615

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Trans/forming Feminisms by Krista Scott-Dixon Pdf

In this groundbreaking anthology, feminist scholar and trans ally Krista Scott-Dixon takes on the challenge of moving us towards more inclusive transfeminist politics. The 30 essays reflect academic, personal and political perspectives of contributors from Canada, the US and Europe. These include well-known activists and scholars in the field -- Bobby Noble, Barbara Findlay, Miqqi Alicia/Michael Gilbert, Kyle Scanlon, Talia Bettcher, Joshua Goldberg and Caroline White -- as well as fresh new voices. The book is divided into four sections to highlight the intersections between trans and feminist ideas. "Narratives and Voices" builds on the feminist idea of consciousness-raising, speaking from individual experiences and questions of how to represent oneself in language. "Identities and Alliances" takes up questions of how identities are produced, maintained and reproduced, and how diverse identities can work collectively. "Inclusion and Exclusion" examines the notion of "safe spaces" and "women-only spaces" in the context of trans challenges such as the Kimberly Nixon v. Vancouver Rape Relief Society case and the entrance policies of the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival. "Shelter and Violence" explores the service-provision policies of shelters, as well as the sex-gender system that supports transphobic abuse. The section introductions contextualize the discussion and identify key issues. The collection concludes with suggestions for future research and activism.

Author : Rachel Anne Williams
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785926488

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Transgressive by Rachel Anne Williams Pdf

How do I know I am trans? Is trans feminism real feminism? What is there to say about trans women's male privilege? This collection of insightful, pithy and passionately argued think pieces from a trans-feminist perspective explores issues surrounding gender, feminism and philosophy and challenges misconceptions about trans identities. The book confronts contentious debates in gender studies to alleviate ongoing tension between feminism and trans women. Split into six sections, this collection covers wider issues, as well as autobiographical experiences, designed to stimulate the reader and encourage them to actively participate.

Author : Christopher J. Lebron,Lebron
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197577349

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The Making Of Black Lives Matter by Christopher J. Lebron,Lebron Pdf

"An introduction for the second edition of a book like The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea is a less straightforward thing than it might first seem. Typically, when an author revisits a book, some years later, their ruminations center on how they may have become clearer on the ideas in their book, taken into consideration critical corrections, or maybe, generally how their own thinking has matured thanks to the miracle of living a life. But as I sit here, towards the end of 2021, experiencing a late fall in which the leaves seem to refuse to quit the trees, I am reflecting in the midst of an entirely different set of considerations"--

Author : Marquis Bey
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452965826

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The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Gender by Marquis Bey Pdf

A complex articulation of the ways blackness and nonnormative gender intersect—and a deeper understanding of how subjectivities are formed A deep meditation on and expansion of the figure of the Negro and insurrectionary effects of the “X” as theorized by Nahum Chandler, The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Gender thinks through the problematizing effects of blackness as, too, a problematizing of gender. Through the paraontological, the between, and the figure of the “X” (with its explicit contemporary link to nonbinary and trans genders) Marquis Bey presents a meditation on black feminism and gender nonnormativity. Chandler’s text serves as both an argumentative tool for rendering the “radical alternative” in and as blackness as well as demonstrating the necessarily trans/gendered valences of that radical alternative. Forerunners is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.

Author : Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies Susan Stryker,Susan Stryker,Talia Mae Bettcher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-30
Category : Gender identity
ISBN : 082236848X

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Trans/Feminisms by Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies Susan Stryker,Susan Stryker,Talia Mae Bettcher Pdf

"TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly offers a high-profile venue for innovative research and scholarship that contest the objectification, pathologization, and exoticization of transgender lives. It publishes interdisciplinary work that explores the diversity of gender, sex, sexuality, embodiment, and identity in ways that have not been adequately addressed by feminist and queer scholarship. Its mission is to foster a vigorous conversation among scholars, artists, activists, and others that examines how "transgender" comes into play as a category, a process, a social assemblage, an increasingly intelligible gender identity, an identifiable threat to gender normativity, and a rubric for understanding the variability and contingency of gender across time, space, and cultures. Major topics addressed in the first few issues include the cultural production of trans communities, critical analysis of transgender population studies, transgender biopolitics, radical critiques of political economy, and problems of translating gender concepts and practices across linguistic communities"--Publisher's website.

Author : Combahee River Collective
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : African American women
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001980726

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The Combahee River Collective Statement by Combahee River Collective Pdf

Author : Susan Stryker,Paisley Currah
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1478008962

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The Issue of Blackness by Susan Stryker,Paisley Currah Pdf

This issue explores and questions the issuance of blackness to transgender identity, politics, and transgender studies. The editors ask why, in its processes of institutionalization and canon formation, transgender studies have been so remiss in acknowledging women-of-color feminisms--black feminisms in particular--as a necessary foundation for the field's own critical explorations of embodied difference. The essays also wrestle with the relationship between trans* studies and queer studies through the lens of blackness.

Author : Mia McKenzie
Publisher : Bgd Press, Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : African American feminists
ISBN : 0988628635

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Black Girl Dangerous by Mia McKenzie Pdf

Essays reprinted from the website Black girl dangerous.