Sensual Excess - Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance Musser Amber JamillaPaperback

Reimagines black and brown sensuality to develop new modes of knowledge production In Sensual Excess, Amber Jamilla Musser imagines epistemologies of sensuality that emerge from fleshiness. Each chapter draws our attention to particular aspects of pornotropic capture that black and brown bodies must always negotiate. To do so, she works against the framing of black and brown bodies as sexualized, objectified, and abject, and offers multiple ways of thinking with and through sensation and aesthetics.

To do so, Sensual Excess analyzes moments of brown jouissance that exceed these constraints. These Though these technologies differ according to the nature of their encounters with white supremacy, together they add to our understanding of the ways that structures of domination produce violence and work to contain bodies and pleasures within certain legible parameters.