Them Goon Rules: Fugitive Essays on Radical Black Feminism (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780816539437)

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.

Author: Marquis Bey
ISBN-10: 081653943X
ISBN-13: 9780816539437
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Language: English
Published: 02/19/2019
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 08/01/2019