While struggles over gender, once the object of theoretical study, have taken to the streets, academic feminist theory has become flat and descriptive. “Gender,” once a theoretical category, has for decades functioned as an identity, fully displacing the conundrum of sexual difference. Afro-pessimism—one field to have defied neoliberal postcritique—heightens the contrast between a dynamic
... [Show full abstract] critique of racism and the flat response to misogyny, particularly racist misogyny. A proper response will not come through neoliberal gender identity. The impossibility of sexual dfference demands once again—still—to be read.