Trans Liberation - Red Voice

Coming Out and (re)Claiming the Power to Name

"I would like to employ the "power to name" or more simply "naming" as a framework that not only encompasses coming out, but also transcends it, capturing an element of the queer experience that is specific to Black people."

Africa

My Gender is Marronage: A Revisitation

"A vulnerable soul... flies not because she is reducible to spirit or resistance but because she is a complex human responding to the conditions forced onto her."

Trans Liberation

Femme Queen, Warrior Queen: Beyond Representation, Toward Self-Determination

"Through a revolutionary understanding of how to "center" Black trans women and transfemmes, we advance both Black women's liberation as well as the universal freedom of all African and oppressed people."

Anarkata

Not Fox, Not Wolf, But the Wildcat

"Where the fox is US liberalism and the wolf is US conservatism, the wildcat is the global Black/Pan African revolution. We do not have to and should not depend on ballots and billionaires when we can turn toward Black radical traditions."

Anarkata

Study, Solidarity, Spirit, Struggle: The Anarkata Turn, pt. 2

"Too much revolutionary community work of today has fallen victim to the capitalist habit of isolating certain variables from the totality they operate in..."

Black liberation

To the Ones Who Can Fly: A Message from the Whirlwind

"We must establish a love of freedom. And we must center those on the bottom, so that we take charge of our destinies at last, and have full participation in the liberation of us all.”

Trans Liberation

Transphobia is a Respectability Politic: Thoughts on Black Community Defense

"Contrary to some popular takes, centering the most vulnerable actually makes it easier (and is the only way) to fully account for all the struggles our people face as a totality."