Join Steele as they discuss their plans for their book project, tentatively titled Asubjective Subjects: Trans Identity, Semiotics, and the Internet. This book zooms into the political efficacy of trans and queer practices of self-identification, using social semiotic  analyses to explore 1) how we can practice subversive identities under hegemonic discursive regimes and 2) what the political ramifications are of a radical queer identity politic based in the individual. Linguistic anthropology, Black studies, and trans studies all recognize the import of the perceiving other on the ontology and epistemology of the marginalized subject. But the individual, internalized senses of self-pervading modern trans and queer identity practices, particularly prevalent on the Internet, position the subject as refusing to take part in this intersubjective play of meaning. Asubjective Subjects therefore studies the political impacts of trans and queer identities based in a subjective ambivalence to the social. In their book, they consider how meaning-making practices construct and constrain the agency that speakers have to develop and spread social meanings and how this subjectivity is itself conditioned by trans and queer self identification, especially for trans people of color. This is a work-in-progress discussion of their book proposal, and feedback and suggestions are especially welcome.