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“This problematizing of gender places her, in my view, out of the traditional symbolics of female gender, and it is our task to make a place for this different social subject. In doing so, we are less interested in joining the ranks of gendered femaleness than gaining the insurgent ground as female social subject. Actually claiming the monstrosity (of a female with the potential to "name"), which her culture imposes in blindness, 'Sapphire' might after all rewrite a radically different text for female empowerment.” AntiracismBlack Feminist ThoughtTrans Theory Book:Mama's Baby Papa's Maybe : An American Grammar Book Source: Mama's Baby Papa's Maybe : An American Grammar Book