This essay reveals Afro-diasporic dance's role in affirming transgender identities among Afro-Caribbean and African descent populations, suggesting a form of embodied care.
This essay examines a trans and non-binary Afro-diasporic model of Black and Brown gender expression through embodied memory and dance. The proposed afro-diasporic model challenges colonialist binaries that restrict transgender and non-binary peoples of Andean, Indigenous, Afro-Caribbean, and African descent from embodied spiritual expression. In this essay, I affirm Afro-diasporic dance as a form of trans care that informs my own spirited flesh and Black and Brown embodied memory and a pluriversal understanding of the cosmos. How does Afro-diasporic dance serve as a liberatory practice for me?
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