@blackwomenradicals is releasing The Black Trans Thought & Histories Series. Get into it!! #Repost from @blackwomenradicals : 📣 Announcement! We are so excited to announce our Black Trans Thought and Histories Series! ➖Curated by Naomi Simmons-Thorne (@nao.meeeee) and emerald faith (@emeraldfaith_), Black Trans Thought & Histories, is an invitation into the worldmakings of African Diasporic peoples and communities of trans*, intersex, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming experiences. 🌱 🔗Link in bio to learn more about the series! 📣About the Series: ▪️Aware that no single English word could possibly encapsulate the spiritual, ethnic, linguistic, transnational, and historical richness curated here, we employ trans* as an ideograph, denoting in place of identity, a range of discourses and experiences made meaningful through complex matrices of modernities, exchanges, diffusions, trades, migrations, empire makings, and of course, contacts with the western worlds. ➖In our struggles against stigma, persecution, discrimination, prejudice and violence, Black transgender advocates, like journalist Imara Jones, are often compelled to remind our spectators that “Trans people are not new” and how “We have always been here.” ▪️With this series, we seek to deconstruct the histories and historiographies which continue to subjugate black trans experiences; those which compel us to repeatedly issue the kinds of reminders which deplete us of intellectual freedom and separate us from our wider pleasures. ➖Drawing on wisdoms from around the Black diaspora, we envision living alternatives to the representation of our Black trans* subjectivities, advancing under the presumption that the intellectual and the material are neither separate nor autonomous, but interlocked. Collage by @bydorianadiaz 〽️💐 #blackwomenradicals #blacktransthoughtandhistories #blacktransthoughtandhistoriesseries