This session aims to activate the various theoretical resonances of blackness and trans materialisms —from Trans Marixsms and gendered racial capitalism; the Human, tranimalities, & trans ecologies; and trans architecture and the built environment; and the eclectic relationships between them.

Assigned Readings:

Chaudhry, V. Varun. 2020. “On Trans Dissemblance: Or, Why Trans Studies Needs Black Feminism.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 45 (3): 529–35. https://doi.org/10.1086/706466.

Stewart, Kathleen. 2010. “Afterword: Worlding Refrains.” The Affect Theory Reader: 339-53. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822393047.