Black Trans Feminism Liberation with Marquis Bey

Professor Marquis Bey discusses their book, BLACK TRANS FEMINISM in which they argue that how we define, label, and identify ourselves can be a way to embrace freedom and the liberated possible. First looking at how we are captured by systems and stereotypes when we see ourselves as defined by our race, gender, or sexuality, Dr. Bey sees the potential to turn the tables on dominance and violence. By embracing the ambiguities and freedom in "black" or "trans," individuals break free of male/female or white/black scripts, allowing themselves to encounter the world and other people in different and more embracing ways. To join the three terms together, Black Trans Feminism, is to seek a world where we face the self with the self and interact with each other freed from the prisons of dominant and oppressive definitions. Everything is possible when one refuses to disappear or comply.

Marquis Bey is Professor of Black Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies, and English, and core faculty in Critical Theory, at Northwestern University. They are the author of The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Gender, Anarcho-Blackness: Notes toward a Black Anarchism, and Them Goon Rules: Fugitive Essays on Radical Black Feminism.

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The Cleveland Heights-University Heights Library's 1619 Project discussion group meets every second Thursday of the month. We discuss how the legacy of slavery remains a dominant factor of American political, cultural, and social spheres. The library program centers on the articles included in the New York Times Special Sunday Magazine dated August 20, 2019.
The program began in October 2019 and has had over 500 people participate. All interviews done by John Piche'.

For upcoming programs, additional readings, and resource lists please visit Heights Library's 1619 Project Discussion page https://heightslibrary.org/services/1...
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Music by Controller 7
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