The Transness of Blackness

The Trans*-ness of Blackness
Student Full Name
Institutional Affiliation
Course Full Title
Instructor Full Name
Due Date
The Trans*-ness of Blackness
In “The Trans*-ness of Blackness, the Blackness of Trans*-ness” by Marquis Bey, the radially diverse ideas of black and trans* are shown to share para-ontological meanings and original lawlessness contrary to the normative. While black is always taken to refer to the dark skin color or identity, the author takes it to mean an antagonism and instability to whiteness, a property shared by the term trans*. Bey posits that black is situated in the in-between of flight and escape: it refuses to be categorized ontologically. Therefore, it is an elusive interstitial that cannot be attained or achieved (Bey, 2017). Black is an indeterminable thing, and although it manifests in the world, it refuses to be anything and is th...