Body Burdens: Toxic Endurance and Decolonial Desire in the French Atlantic

"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