ABSTRACT
This chapter charts the geographies of black trans feminism and its theoretical interventions by emerging from a conversation between two black femme nonbinary scholars. Black feminist scholarship often attempted to make claims on cis womanhood, and so has been slow to engage with more explicit gender and sexual transgressions and identities. These transgressive subjectivities have been celebrated within black communities but often left out of the explicit scholarship of black feminists. While sociology examines the rules of gender and race, Black trans feminism refuses to play by these rules altogether. It acknowledges the need to identify structures of domination, while simultaneously refusing to see the structures as immutable. Black feminism and black trans feminism are deeply intertwined intellectual and political projects. Black trans women and femmes have always been immersed in the traditions of their community, including the black feminism.
