On Them Goon Rules: Fugitive Essays on Radical Black Feminism (w/ Marquis Bey‪)‬ We Be Imagining

How do we think about “Nah” vs  the “I would rather not to” of Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville- in other words, how does Blackness re-situate refusal? Samaria Rice and Lisa Simpson, mothers of Tamir Rice and Richard Risher who were murdered by the police, released forceful statements calling out the opportunist infiltration of BLM LA and Shaun King into the movement. This inadvertently catalyzed a conversation on Twitter around “Abolish Black Men” This episode unpacks what that phrase means, What is gender abolition? How does class mediate this discussion around gender and is leaving the hood a precondition for Black studies? Marquis Bey joins the WBI show to vibe on Lil Wayne’s A Milli, Katrina, digital infrastructure for mutual aid, and the utility in being unrecognizable to the state. 
Marquis Bey is an Assistant Professor of African American Studies and English, and core faculty member of critical theory, at Northwestern University. Their work concerns black feminist theorizing, transgender studies, abolition, and critical theory. The author of several books, including Them Goon Rules: Fugitive Essays on Radical Black Feminism, most recently they are in the midst of revising a monograph entitled Black Trans Feminism to be published in 2022 with Duke University Press. Bey is committed to thinking rigorously and radically about subjectivity, blackness, nonnormative gender, and thoroughgoing abolition.
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Links for the Episode:Anarcho-Blackness: Notes Toward a Black AnarchismTina Campt: Black Feminist Futures and the Practice of Fugitivity - ClassroomMelville, Herman. 1853Spike Lee turns cameras on New OrleansSpike Lee Paid $200,000 By NYPD For Consulting On Ad CampaignFred Moten Blackness and Nothingness (Mysticism in the Flesh)Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this Crisis (and the Next) – Dean SpadeDistributed Blackness: African American CyberculturesSamaria Rice Calls Out Prominent Black Activists In Scathing StatementSamaria Rice Has Demands for Shaun King, BLM Activists2Pac Speaks On Malcolm X Grassroots Movement 1992Otherwise Movements – The New InquiryNikki Giovanni Speaks on her "Thug Life" TattooDenise Ferreira da Silva – Hacking the Subject: Black Feminism, Refusal, and the Limits of CritiqueMama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book Author(s): Hortense J. SpillersAlondra NelsonThe Race for Theory by Barbara ChristianRecommendations:Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of BeingMAGIC: THE GATHERING