"Eagerly awaited, Body Burdens bridges history, toxicology, politics, and intimate life to show how contemporary exposure to chemical burdens is embedded within long-standing exposures to racism, homophobia, and transphobia. While 'the body keeps the score,' people endure, resist, and even thrive despite the slow and enduring violences with which they live. A tour de force that will continue to shape scholarship for generations!"
-- Deborah A. Thomas, author of Exorbitance: A Speculative Ethnography of Inheritance

&ldquot;Body Burdens offers an eloquent meditation on toxic apprehension: a way of attending to toxicity…that refuses to…make queer bodies into mere symptoms of contamination. Building from the inspiring, emerging canon of African American and Caribbean thinkers, Agard-Jones explores the heart and history of gender-bending decolonial desire.”
-- Anna Tsing, co-author of Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene: The New Nature