ABSTRACT
The chapter develops a framework for a critical transnational queer praxis based in the intellectual traditions of queer theory, Black and transnational feminisms, and grounded in lived experiences navigating the academy. This praxis critiques the cartographic rules of the academy, making clear how academic institutions are deeply embedded within a range of white, male reproductive rationales. It centers collaboration and invitation as ways to radically change the hierarchical relationships which exist in the academy by enacting what Gaile Pohlhaus Jr. (2017) refers to as “epistemic gathering.” By pulling and gesturing toward radical genealogies past and present to re-spatialize geographies of power, a critical transnational queer praxis works to create spaces in the academy that reach beyond borders to enact minoritarian liberatory performances.
