Pleasure Won’t Get You Far: Memory, Nut Chasing, and Hooked On Ebonics

K Anderson (she/they) is a writer-artist, porn archivist, and doctoral student in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program at Rutgers University. Broadly, K writes, studies, teaches, and creates visual art and music about sexual economies and geographies, transsexualities, black transfeminist theory, and pornography. Most recently, her collaborative pornographic film, Southern Confessions Vol. 1, was featured in Gallery 400 in Chicago, Illinois and her essay titled, “Pleasure Won’t Get You Far: Memory, Nut Chasing, and Hooked On Ebonics” recently published in (De)Cypher: Black Notes on Culture & Criticism. Deeply fascinated with method-making and archival practices, K is interested in the epistemological and physiological function of memory as a troubled mechanism of historicizing and remembering black sexual cultures, economies, and geographies.