The ally must die: Theorizing a politics of death and unbodiment

Abstract

ABSTRACT As the first article to a two-part series comprised of ‘The Ally Must Die: Theorizing a Politics of Death and Unbodiment' and ‘Reading Sikhi and Transness Together: Theorizing a Politics of Death and Unbodiment', this series argues that the only ethical labor for non-Black, non-Indigenous, non-Muslim, and dominating caste people within an anti-Black, anti-Indigenous, brahminical, and Islamophobic world order is to commit to one's death and embodiment. This first article connects complicity to conquest and interrogates non-Black, non-Indigenous, non-Muslim, and dominating caste people' attempts to move beyond and claim an `otherwise' that often co-opts Black, Indigenous, and Dalit futurisms.