In Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique, I attempted to advance a materialist interrogation of racialized gender and sexuality. I tried to do so by theorizing the genealogy of women of color feminism as inspiration for intersectional analyses of nonheteronormative racial formations. Aberrations used women of color feminism to provoke new considerations around the natures of culture and capital, new considerations that summed up in queer of color critique. It has since occurred to me that women of color feminism also invites us to consider how we might reconsider the issue of sexuality’s deployment in an effort to assess queer studies’ management of that category and to usher queer studies into its full critical potential.
