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In Black Trans Feminism Marquis Bey offers a meditation on blackness and gender nonnormativity in ways that recalibrate traditional understandings of each Theorizing black trans feminism from the vantages of abolition and gender radicality Bey articulates blackness as a mutiny against racializing categorizations transness as a nonpredetermined wayward and deregulated movement that works toward genders destruction and black feminism as an epistemological method to fracture hegemonic modes of racialized gender In readings of the essays interviews and poems of Alexis Pauline Gumbs jayy dodd and Venus DiKhadijah Selenite Bey turns black trans feminism away from a politics of gendered embodiment and toward a conception of it as a politics grounded in fugitivity and the subversion of power Together blackness and transness actualize themselves as on the run from gender In this way Bey presents black trans feminism as a mode of enacting the wholesale dismantling of the world we have been given