Theorizing From Flesh: Resisting Easy Explanations for Trans of Color Life

• In Event: Saturday Roundtable Session 3:05 pm
  In Roundtable Session: Queer and Trans Futurities Imagined Through Mind, Body, and Spirit (Table 23)

Abstract

The author uses theory in the flesh, imbued by women of color (Anzaldúa & Moraga, 1981) and Black feminisms (Bey, 2019) to make visible the material conditions of the lives of collaborators in a study exploring the loving practices of trans people of color. Theorizing in the flesh illuminates contradictions and tensions of out-of-school supports for queer and trans young people of color as sites of possibility. Through animating the learning that happens in-between formal education spaces and across identity lines, the author advances attunement and relationality as critical components for just research.

Author

• Page Valentine Regan, Colorado College