"From Nowhere to Somewhere" : the desires of a black transman's futurity
department or school: Arts, Faculty of
department or school: Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, Institute for
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCV
creator: Williams, Savoy Whitney
issued: 2023-04-30T07:00:00Z
issued: 2021
related degree: Master of Arts - MA
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: The demand for scholarly works concerning black transmen’s experience within the fields of Transgender Studies, black feminist thought and Critical Race Studies continues to be longed for. As an immediate attendance to this longing for the concern of black trans beings, this work comes as a provisional glimpse into the complex relationships between race and gender as social categories, and as analytics concerning the figuring of being black and trans. Five works by black trans scholars presenting inquiries into the status’ of blackness, gender and being are analyzed, compared and ultimately grounded, to set my foundation for a creative method of practice for black transmen to augment their futurity towards one that is hoped for.
aggregated CHO: https://circle.library.ubc.ca/rest/handle/2429/78056
note: “FROM NOWHERE TO SOMEWHERE”: THE DESIRES OF A BLACK TRANSMAN’S FUTURITY by Savoy Whitney Williams A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FILFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS in THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE AND POSTDOCTORAL STUDIES (Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Vancouver) April 2021 © Savoy Whitney Williams, 2021 ii The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies for acceptance, the thesis entitled: “From Nowhere to Somewhere”: The Desires of a Black Transman’s Futurity submitted by Savoy Williams in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice Examining Committee: Dr. Dina Al-Kassim, Associate Professor, Social Justice Institute, UBC Supervisor Dr. Athena Colman, Associate Professor, Philosophy, Brock University Supervisory Committee Member iii Abstract The demand for scholarly works concerning black transmen’s experience within the fields of Transgender Studies, black feminist thought and Critical Race Studies continues to be longed for. As an immediate attendance to this longing for the concern of black trans beings, this work comes as a provisional glimpse into the complex relationships between race and gender as social categories, and as analytics concerning the figuring of being black and trans. Five works by black trans scholars presenting inquiries into the status’ of blackness, gender and being are analyzed, compared and ultimately grounded, to set my foundation for a creative method of practice for black transmen to augment their futurity towards one that is hoped for. iv Lay Summary This work attempts to inspire a creative method of practice for black transmen to envision their futurity, while revealing to non-black and trans readers the ways actualities of black transmen’s lives become occluded from current imaginings of black and trans futurity. …
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2021-11
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0397113
language: eng
degree discipline: Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/78056