For Estrangement: Queerness, Blackness, and Unintelligibility

This paper describes the stakes of ongoing conversations in areas queer theory and black studies on epistemological, ethical, political role unintelligibility. In line with longstanding philosophical questions about value aporia as gap or absence understanding, thinkers like Lee Edelman Frank Wilderson III have articulated how people regularly fallen into spaces unintelligibility they run against given formations social world. These theorized what this – will call queerness blackness is other than an impetus for integration. The dichotomy between two key positions conversation, resistance refusal, suggesting these offer challenges better addressed through a conception estrangement.