Navigating Gendered Sexuality Among Black Trans Masculine People and Black Masculine-Presenting Women

• In Event: 50251 - Open Topic Paper Session on Sex and Gender

Abstract

With intense anti-transgender and anti-feminist legislation, and on-going anti-Black racism in the U.S., it is crucial to understand how Black trans masculine people and Black masculine-presenting women navigate and accomplish masculinity, as their experiences uncover critical insights on how inequalities of race, gender, and sexuality intersect. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with Black trans masculine and Black masculine-presenting women, I document how dominant ideologies of race, gender, and sexuality are resisted, transformed, and (re)produced through their understandings and enactments of masculinity within public and private romantic and sexual interactions. Black trans masculine people and Black masculine-presenting women provide novel insight in how dominant ideologies of race, gender, and sexuality are contextually subverted and (re)produced within and beyond sexual interactions.

Author

• Tristen Kade, University of California-Santa Barbara