We Major: Black Trans Feminism Fights Back

This chapter is an invitation to take Black trans lives seriously; to move beyond hashtags and retweets to consider the experiences of Black trans women and femmes like ourselves. We aim to transform the shade of existing, as Juliana Huxtable discusses, into a political and social framework for transformation. Emerging from a conversation between two Black femme nonbinary scholars, this chapter charts the geographies of Black trans feminism and its theoretical interventions into the way we practice and theorize sociological knowledge. We draw from one part of the Black trans experience, from our roots as nonbinary femmes, but we hope it will open the door to a wider conversation with other Black trans community members who share an investment in our collective liberation. What can we learn through the lineages that weave their way through Black trans stories? What new interventions and insights can these perspectives bring to the potential un- or redoing of sociology?