Black Woman Ungendered: How Society Failed Megan Thee Stallion

Abstract

"Black Woman Ungendered: How Society Failed Megan Thee Stallion" by Tyah-Amoy Roberts is a crucial study of transphobic and misgendering language directed at hiphop star Megan Thee Stallion, which, following Black Feminist theorist Patricia Hill Collins, Roberts ultimately theorizes as ungendering. Analyzing real social media posts that question Megan’s femininity after she was violently attacked in summer 2020, Roberts asks us to confront how Black women are continually positioned as outside of normative American femininity.