Summary and interpretations of themes in the first two chapters of Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks. I am interested in two aspects of the text. First, how Fanon understands linguistic practice - speaking, diction, grammar, expression - as irreducibly colonial, bearing the marks of colonial racism, and how and why creole language formations are, for him, not sites of resistance or alternative paths for expressive life. Second, why Fanon sees interracial desire as pathological and bearing all the markers of antiblackness: the desire of the Black woman to exit colonial relations through the white man, the failure of such desires, and the recurrence of antiblackness in the most intimate aspects of life.