This session asks a simple question: How does Black transness alter the ways we understand Black desirability and sexual practice? While modern sexuality is a confluence of political, economic, affective, and racialized relationships that has been codified in and through antiblack violence, this session centers how the black erotic opens up "escape hatches" (Ultra Omni 2023) for black trans power, futurity, social reproduction, and living otherwise.

Assigned Readings:

Buggs, Shantel Gabrieal. 2020. “(Dis)Owning Exotic: Navigating Race, Intimacy, and Trans Identity.” Sociological Inquiry 90 (2): 249–70. https://doi.org/10.1111/soin.12348.

Edidi, Dane Figueroa. 2017. For Black Trans Girls Who Gotta Cuss a Mother Fucker out When Snatching an Edge Ain’t Enough : A Choreo Poem. Baltimore, Md.: Dane Edidi.