Contents

Introduction: Brown Jouissance and Inhabitations of the Pornotrope

1. Eating Out: The Labial, Consumption, and the Scalar

2. Surface Play: Flash, Friction, and Self-Reflection

3. Deep Listening, Belonging, and the Pleasures of Brown Jouissance

4. Performing Witness: Voice, Interiority, and Diaspora

5. Weeping Machines: Automaticity, Looping, and the Possibilities of Perversion

6. Femme Aggression and the Value of Labor

Coda: Elsewhere, Is the Mother a Place?

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Lyle Ashton Harris, Billie #21, 2002.