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C. Riley Snorton is an American scholar, author, and activist whose work focuses on historical perspectives of gender and race, specifically Black transgender identities. His publications include Nobody is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low and Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity. Snorton is currently an Associate Professor at Cornell University.

Education and Background
Michaela will put stuff here?

Publications
Nobody is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2014.

On the Question of ‘Who’s Out in Hip Hop.’ Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society 16.3 -4 (2014): 283 - 302.

Trans Necropolitics: A Transnational Reflection on Violence, Death, and the Trans of Color Afterlife. Co-authored with Jin Haritaworn in the Transgender Studies Reader, 2nd Edition. Eds. Susan Stryker and Aren Aizura. (New York: Routledge, 2013): 66-76.

‘A New Hope’: The Psychic Life of Passing. Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 24.3 (2009): 77-92.

Influence
Alexia will put how snorton has influenced the conversation (critics' reviews?)

Article Evaluation
I was looking for the article on “batty” as a way to describe a woman’s derriere as explained in the article “The ‘Batty’ Politic: Toward an Aesthetic of the Black Female Body” by Janell Hobson, but I didn’t find one. Nor did I find an article for Janell Hobson, for that matter. Instead I found Hobson credited on a couple different pages for her feminist academic work, but none for the article in question; as for “batty”, the closest I found was the article for the term “batty boy” which is used as a derogatory slur against effeminate boys and men in Jamaican English  and creole.

The article mostly used sources that described the anti-LGBTQ history in Jamaica, which I find to be interesting because of the way the term was presented in the article by Hobson. I wasn’t under the impression that it was pejorative at all, so to the article I would add reference to Hobson’s article that brings the term into neutral territory. I also noticed that no one on the talk page has mentioned other uses for the word “batty”, which isn’t even included on the page for the word “bottom” as a synonym.

I think what interests me most about this article in relation to our class is the direct connection to black sexuality and the expression of it. How is it that a term that to some can be a derogatory slur can also be an empowering word for an asset, and what are the implications of this, in Jamaican culture and elsewhere within the African Diaspora? I think it would be cool to look into how this connects to the way we discuss sexuality and the intersections of the black community with the LGBTQ community for the overall conversation.

P.S. I want to see how we could do a page for Janell Hobson. Calling it!