by Che Gossett
“It is possible for prison wallsto disappear,
For the cell to become a distant land
Without frontiers” – Mahmoud Darwish
“A wall is just a wall and nothing more at all. It can be broken down”
–Assata Shakur
“One might have hoped that, by this hour, the very sight of chains on Black flesh, or the very sight of chains, would be so intolerable a sight for the American people, and so unbearable a memory, that they would themselves spontaneously rise up and strike off the manacles. But, no, they appear to glory in their chains; now, more than ever, they appear to measure their safety in chains and corpses.”
James Baldwin, “Open Letter to Angela Davis”
As a Black trans/gender queer femme who works with/in trans studies I am hyper aware of the ways in which Blackness complicates trans studies…
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