Project Title

Black Transfeminist Ecologies: A Litany of Loose Objects 

Project Description

This dissertation explores the Anthropocene as a crisis of form and formlessness, revealing the indeterminacy of blackness, indigeneity, and transness as ontological categories. I propose Black Transfeminist Ecology as a poethics of interstitial “looseness” that disrupts fixed ontological attachments, offering new ways of relating to form, being, and ecological rupture through a series of mediations on the question of form(lessness) and its emergence at the site of Black and Indigenous social worlds. Through a number of spatial metonyms, I examine the aesthetic practices of Black Transfeminist actors that extend lessons on navigating precarity at the end of the World.