see anyone or anything fully enough, or clearly enough. Black/queer/diaspora is the conjuncture of scholarly literatures, theoretical frameworks and sites of struggle and cultural production. Primary among these is a commitment to the on-the-ground experiences and intellectual, artistic and political legacies of black people in a number of areas. Chief among these is black feminism, and 'acting womanish'. Another important stream is a re-working of other intellectual and activist traditions, like queer theory. The recent emergence of black/queer and queer of colour work points out the limits of queer theory and queer studies. On its own, that is outside of its continued re-working by critical race, decolonial indigenous and disability theorists in the academic world, the arts and activism, 'queer' may never do what some defenders claim it was meant to do: achieve a wider co-articulation of a number of embodied and embodying categories of normativity, like nationality, gender, region, class and ability, as well as sexuality. Nonetheless, despite often important critiques of their provenance and use as merely inaccurate or sloppy shorthand, queer thinking and queer seeing still offer a unique way of pushing past normative assumptions of 'sexuality'.