ABSTRACT
This discussion is oriented around three main points of intervention. First, the ways in which questions of queerness have remained marginal to recent black British studies interventions in the UK is considered, charting some of the limits of this debate while also acknowledging its importance and potential. The concept of (im)possibility is used to highlight this duality and call attention to both the unacknowledged limits and exclusions while simultaneously marking the necessity of these interruptions and interventions about the constitution of black studies, both generally and in Britain specifically. Second, the obscuring of black British queerness in transatlantic articulations of black queer studies is addressed, noting how this has played out in the context of key critical anthologies. Finally, this chapter makes the argument that the emergence of and a case for black British queer studies cannot be constituted solely in relation to the nation-state as its singular site of orientation; rather, it is also already embedded (even if it remains in several instances unspoken) in transnational debates about the formation of black queer studies. As such, its interventions must be multiple, multidirectional, transnational, and transatlantic.
