ABSTRACT
Tochi Onyebuchi’s 2019 novella Riot Baby is a searing critique of American carceral logics. In Riot Baby, siblings Ella and Kev endure anti-Black violence at the hands of the state until Ella shows them how to use their psychic powers to destroy and remake the world. Parker Alexander Miles has two aims in this chapter. First, Miles offers a reading of Riot Baby as an Afrofuturist, Black feminist text. Second, Miles uses the text to wrestle with what is at stake—and indeed, what is possible—for Black men doing feminisms.
