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The author explores issues related to gender, race, class, and sexuality in the virtual space of therapy. The particular case at hand relates to the therapist’s identity as a Black queer working-class cisgender therapist, specifically as she works with a white middle-class queer cisgender woman. The transference and countertransference of illegibility of identity and the erotics of racism arise when working in an interracial dyad. Intersubjectivity in this interracial dyad arrives via being positioned as the racialized, sexualized, and classed “other” or “stranger.” Using the language and scholarship of autotheory and Black feminism, the author explores the tension of historical identities in the therapeutic dyad. Being rendered illegible to a white client is succinctly expressed in the client’s repeated statement of “I don’t know.”