McKittrick applies the various connotations of the “demonic” (an uncertain, unknowable, unpredictable, nonlinear, and metaphysical being) as a means of centering a non-white/non-Western epistemology of time/space (McKittrick xxiv). At the core of this alternative way of knowing and being is “the historical spatial unrepresentability of black femininity” (McKittrick xxv). The demonic is the counterbeing to Sylvia Wynter’s conceptualization of Man (white, male, heterosexual, able-bodied Christian). Rather than center the Man and position others as exterior / less-than-human, McKittrick focuses on the demonic to emphasize that “subaltern lives are not marginal/other to regulatory classificatory systems, but instead integral to them” (McKittrick xxv). This framework underscores the stakes of Black women’s geographies as not simply an alternative relationship to land (although this is an important manifestation of Black women’s epistemologies) but provides language for an alternative/expansive way of being human, beyond the confines of post-Enlightenment categorization.