Them Goon Rules: Fugitive Essays on Radical Black Feminism (The Feminist Wire Books)

"Marquis Bey's debut collection, Them Goon Rules, is an un-rulebook, a long-form essayistic sermon that meditates on how Blackness and nonnormative gender impact and remix everything we claim to know. A series of essays that reads like a critical memoir, this work queries the function and implications of politicized Blackness, Black feminism, and queerness. Bey binds together his personal experiences with social justice work at the New York-based Audre Lorde Project, growing up in Philly, and rigorous explorations of the iconoclasm of theorists of Black studies and Black feminism. Bey's voice recalibrates itself playfully on a dime, creating a collection that tarries in both academic and nonacademic realms. Fashioning fugitive Blackness and feminism around a line from Lil' Wayne's "A Millie," Them Goon Rules is a work of "auto-theory" that insists on radical modes of thought and being as a refrain and a hook that is unapologetic, rigorously thoughtful, and uncompromising."--Publisher's description Cover; Series List; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Unruly; Whence We Are Sent; Them Goon Rules; On Being Called A Thug; Dawg Fights; Refusal; The Alp Journals; Three Theses: Black/feminist/queer; A Series Of (un)related Events; Scenes Of Illegible Shadow Genders; Escape; Flesh Werq; Laying In The Cut; Notes; About The Author Marquis Bey. Includes Bibliographical References. Electronic Reproduction. Baltimore, Md Available Via World Wide Web. "A collection of essays that unsettle normative ways of understanding Blackness, Black feminism, and queerness"--Provided by publisher