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 been written about extensively, however these analyses have been overwhelmingly cis. Further, where they have touched upon those Black and “queer”, those TMA have—as is the case with Bl...

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 meaning and the whole purport of the struggle against opportunism.” Within the context of this statement, Lenin is referring to proletarians within the Western European socialist bloc, and is thus c...

"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 attempts to create a coherent class of “non-men” which has resulted into strange conclusions about Black trans men that also has ramifications for Black transmasculine people in general. I hope to o...

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

gaëlle provides counter-balance to g, he plants hope

gzifa fights with g now, she levies the charge of cowardice

gzifa reminds me that peace and pacifism are not the same

g struggles to...

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 was shot one day in the <<past>>.

cause and effect in relation to each other don’t really mean much

but i do feel the effect. there’s a hole that can’t be filled

the...

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

and cultural/critical theory. In this sense, the modifier “black” in the term “black

nihilism” indicates much more than an “identity”; a blackened nihilism pushes&...