g(ender) fugitive

The Black Sheep: Part 1

The nuclear family is a site of Black death, both physically and ontologically. It also facilitates the death of Black autonomy through embodying the amalgamation of various institutions and structures which give birth to the state and sustains it. The effects of this on Black men and women have ...

The Ouroboros of Western Feminism: Proletarian Feminism and Transmisogynoir

When reading Lenin, perhaps more than anything, the sentiment expressed from him that stands with me the most clearly is aptly summarized by his statement that “it is therefore our duty, if we wish to remain socialists to go down lower and deeper, to the real masses; this is the whole ...

"Non-Men", maGes, and Black Masculinities

In order to understand patriarchy, one must understand masculinity in relation to, specifically, anti-Black cisheteropatriarchy. Recently however, it’s becoming more and more obvious that a lot of people are fumbling the bag when it comes to this topic. Specifically, I want to talk about the at...

meet the girls

the body remains the same but the self does not

the most prominent are three

g is the eldest, most often granted deference

borne from necessity, they are empty

lately i’ve become more frightened of them

gzifa, once aptly named, sought to mediate conflict

gaë...

nectar

time can’t be captured, but it can be stolen.

we get told it’s never too late, but when exactly do i get to start?

cause the fearful girl inside wants to be free

and her bodyguard’s getting tired. yesterday folds into the now

and i continue bleeding cause i think i w...

Black Transfeminist Nihilism: Captive Maternals and Transmisogynoir as Fulcrum

“We are left, yet again, to place our hope in a future politics that avoids history,

historicity, and the immediacy of black suffering. For this reason, the black nihilist

rejects the emancipatory impulse within certain aspects of Black critical discourse<...

Anti-Blackness and the Economy of Outrage

I am burned out on outrage for anti-Blackness and yet I have experienced an incredible pressure to feel outrage and something approaching a sense of guilt. This now makes sense to me as the function of outrage is to animate us to embrace a temporary spontaneity, and this is then utilized to form ...

Ungendering and the Denial of Femininity Part 2: Anti-Theory as Transmisogynoir

“When I asked Mr. Johnson how the union succeeded in winning some of their demands, without the slightest hesitation he reached into the drawer of his nightstand and pulled out a dog-eared copy of V. I. Lenin’s What Is to Be Done and a box of shotgun shells, set both firmly on th...