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November 16, 2024 at 2:01 PM
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November 16, 2024 at 1:54 PM
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“The black transgender lacks any being-in-the-world, and the lure of gendered embodiment functions as a foil to black muteness. In other words, the body is called upon to speak being where there is none. Black bodily experience is charged with the impossible-to transform black into ontological subject. Indeed, a body is not an ontology. Embodiment might provide the ground for phenomenological experience, but once "ontology leaves existence by the way- side," as Fanon (1967a:110) suggests,black embodied experience is unexplainable and inassimilable ontologically. Within this context, "black trans" serves a speculative function, in that it foregrounds the gap between black existence and being through the coordinates of gender. Instead of thinking of black transgender as a nonnormative (gendered) subject in the world, we can think of it as instructive, philosophically. The black is trans to gender, not transgender. The black is trans to queerness, not black queer. The black is trans to the world itself and all its coordinates of being. What black transgender is teaching us is the impossibility of finding symbolic coherency in the world. Gender is a cloak, an ontic garment. We've clothed ourselves in these garments, although they do not fit and were not intended for us. It is time for us to disrobe and face the naked of blackness, its nothingness. Black trans is precisely the process of denuding the garments of being, and the black transgender pro- vides an opportunity to work through this process through the experience of out- of-placeness.” — Calvin Warren, Calling into Being Tranifestation Black Trans and the Problem of Ontology “Black studies (and queer studies/trans studies), I would argue, is in des- perate need of a black trans procedure. There is a disturbing resurgence of humanism and its universal ontology in the fields of black, gender, and sexuality studies. The ontological ground of such discourses is rarely interrogated, resulting in fantastical ideas of universal humanism, postrace thematics, coalition politics, and race blindness. All these critical idioms neglect the ontological dimension of antiblackness, in order to provide resolution and resolvability of the tension between blackness and being. Black trans, as I imagine it here, would unravel ontological humanism, which sustains a death drive, one instantiating tremen- dous misery, disappointment, and agony. Thus, black trans is not invested in the ontology of trans studies, queer theory, and black romantic humanism. Its aim is to impose seismiclike devastation on these fields to expose the antiblack violence that sustains them (even aspects of black studies relying on antiblack instruments of ontology, humanism, metaphysics, biopolitics, and futurity). Black trans studies must overcome tranifestation and its seductions-even as the philo- sophical structure of tranifestation beautifully explains the mechanism by which the human creates ontologically.” — Warren (ibid)
November 16, 2024 at 1:54 PM
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