 These difficulties notwithstanding, studies of gender and sexuality are becoming increasingly prominent in Africana philosophy, thanks in part to a thaw in the historically constraining structures mentioned above. The issues driving these studies are not new, however, so one way to choose a path through this sprawling territory involves simply tracking the impact of some germinal texts and influential authors from earlier periods. Proceeding in this way will require speeding past a version of the important question posed by Saba Fatima and her colleagues (2017): how do the various fields that might implicate or transect Africana studies of gender and sexuality—fields like decolonial feminism, Black queer theory, women of color feminism, third world feminism, Black feminism, and so on—relate to each other? Treating this difficulty with the care it deserves is beyond the scope of this project. I will simply stipulate to two assumptions: that the categories “Black” and “Africana” overlap sufficiently to justify treating studies of Black gender and Black sexuality as relevant for Africana thought; and that expanding the zone of overlap to include thinkers who might self-identify with one of the other categories (decolonial, third world, etc.) will reveal some useful continuities in the various projects.