ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on three different concepts that seem implicit to intersectionality—and indeed to contemporary social justice work and politics of the Left in general—and provides the grounds on which trans study moves away from, appositional to, or generatively against the grain of them. Those concepts are categoricality, monolithism, and the visual or representation. Fleischmann's preferential floating in parentheticals is a desire to “be” antecategorical, to emerge through that which is cast aside in order for the rest to come through as existent. The categorical, even when a marginalized category, is an enforcement, not merely an acknowledgement. Insurgent trans study cares little for the ways that one “must” reckon with “reality” because reality is often a masquerade for the normative axes along which social intelligibility and life happen; reality disallows radical imaginations of abolition, in other words.
