This collection digs deep into various understandings and formulations of Black feminism, and Black women’s thought. They challenge the categories of “woman” and “queer” to imagine and create Black female subjectivities--and practices of care/survival/intimacy--beyond Euro-American frameworks of gender and queer theory. These texts also present new frames with which to imagine “feminism.” Our choice of essays ultimately places our own connections to Black women’s praxis within this work.