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{"title":"Editorial Introduction: Transnational Feminist Movement(s), Solidarities, and Analyses","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/ff.2023.a907918","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ff.2023.a907918","url":null,"abstract":"Editorial Introduction:Transnational Feminist Movement(s), Solidarities, and Analyses Patti Duncan Sitting outside on a hot summer day in Portland, Oregon, I'm reminded of other summers in other places … long humid summers spent in Atlanta during graduate school, cooler summers growing up near the mountains of Colorado, summers spent traveling in various countries, sometimes with groups of students or to be with friends and family. Moving through time and space in these memories, I think about my mother's journey from South Korea, finding herself in the strange, foreign world of the 1970s United States, longing always for some version of home that no longer existed once she had left. I have a vivid memory of a summer during my childhood when she traveled to Korea and returned feeling melancholy about how everything there had changed so drastically. While I mostly remember missing my mom that summer, I realize now that her visit provoked a complex set of feelings for her about her place in the world. Her experiences—and my own—reflect the realities of moving between and among nation-states, making meaning of living transnationally. Themes and questions related to transnational movement/s surface throughout this issue of Feminist Formations, beginning with our cover, featuring the evocative work of Ambreen Butt. This image, \"Shoaib (8)\" (2018), created with watercolor with torn and collaged text on tea stained paper, is part of her series, \"Say My Name.\" Ambreen Butt, a Pakistani American artist, engages feminist and political ideas through traditional Persian art, and is known for her drawings, paintings, prints, and collages. \"Shoaib (8)\" offers the name and age of a young victim of a US drone strike. All the pieces in the series are titled after children who were killed by US drones in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Knowing the inspiration for the image makes it all the more heartbreaking. In it, meticulously painted blue butterflies gather at the bottom while shards of blue swirl up around them, creating an effect suggestive of an explosion or a storm. Naming this piece and the other works in the \"Say My Name\" series after the children is significant, given that their lives and stories were virtually erased. Thus, the paintings document the names of these children, and offer viewers a way to bear witness to the violence that claimed their young lives. [End Page vii] The first article to appear in this issue is the winner of the Feminist Formations/National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) award of 2022, \"Socio-Legal Empowerment for Working Women in Bangladesh\" by Fauzia Erfan Ahmed, Jyotsana Parajuli, and Anna Lucia Feldman. In this article, Ahmed, Parajuli, and Feldman argue that earning income is not necessarily equivalent to economic empowerment for women in Bangladesh. In doing so, they identify a paradox in progressive development narratives stating that economic advancement does not necessarily lead to political and social advancement, and i","PeriodicalId":190295,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Formations","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135144585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities: Publics, Counterpublics, Human Rights by Kanika Batra (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/ff.2023.a907931","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ff.2023.a907931","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities: Publics, Counterpublics, Human Rights by Kanika Batra Asha Jeffers (bio) Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities: Publics, Counterpublics, Human Rights by Kanika Batra, New York: Routledge, 2022. 222 pp., $136 hardcover, $39.16 paper. One of postcolonial theory and criticism's most productive attributes is its attention to sameness and difference across disparate geographical locations and historical trajectories. While research and writing focused on specific nations are important as well, the comparative lens and skepticism towards purely nation-based analysis that are integral parts of postcolonialism allow its practitioners to continue to produce powerful scholarship with a global perspective. The value of these characteristics is especially clear in the context of feminist research, as the complex nature of categories of gender and sexuality throughout the world remain a core concern for those who are invested in the creation of transnational feminist and queer solidarity and the rejection of colonial practices masquerading as feminist action. Kanika Batra's Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities engages in the sort of comparative work that enriches multiple fields and discourses while digging deep into its various contexts. The goal of Batra's project is to offer \"a feminist-queer history\" based on readings of feminist, gay, lesbian, and queer movement publications from the late 1970s to the late 1990s (1) in order to \"chart common grounds of feminist-queer solidarities toward decolonial futures\" (2). To this end, over the course of three parts, Batra explores the history and context of feminist and queer publishing in three key nodes of the postcolonial world: Jamaica, India, and South Africa. These three locations are well chosen; they are each national contexts which have played and continue to play a key role in their region's literary and cultural landscape. At the same time, the differences amongst them also are part of why they are worthy of comparison. Jamaica's cultural, economic, and political role in the Caribbean is substantial, but it is a significantly smaller and less populous country than India and South Africa, and, as Batra points out, \"their political and economic prominence (as members of the five-nation BRICS [Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa] group) has ensured greater scrutiny of their records on the rights of women and sexual minorities\" (6). South Africa's specific history of apartheid also deeply influences the trajectory of its discourses and practices around gender and sexuality, especially in terms of how they intersect with race. Each country also has a distinct linguistic context, although all three are former British colonies where the use of English continues to have middle- and upper-class connotations. In each of these three, disparate spaces, women and queer people of a variety of gender identities produced activist periodicals that sought to advance femi","PeriodicalId":190295,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Formations","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135145115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"What My Abuelas Taught Me About This Moment","authors":"Carina M. Buzo Tipton","doi":"10.1353/ff.2023.a907933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ff.2023.a907933","url":null,"abstract":"What My Abuelas Taught Me About This Moment Carina M. Buzo Tipton (bio) Two weeks before my defense, my dissertation was due. On May 1, 2023, I spent the morning basking in my final read through of this project that I had been working on for five years. This project that reflected generations worth of my family. When I hit send, I remember this release, this exhale, to finally have it out of my hands. I felt the closing of a chapter. That afternoon I found out that I was pregnant. In the span of a single workday, the distance of a single page of my life was made clear. One chapter of life, turning to the next. This flipping of chapters, led to many reflections of closings, endings, transition—wisdoms that I have mostly learned from my Abuelas, that I would like to share with you, sweet reader. Because this is also the year that I completed my time as part of the Feminist Formations editorial team, I offer this afterword as a reflection on moments of transition. I spent a lot of time as a student searching for reassurance on the internet. I would search questions like: What does a grad student wear to orientation? What is feminism? What if my students hate me? What happens if I can't finish my dissertation? The answers to the questions I typed into the abyss weren't as important as the ritual of externalizing my self-doubt. The entire PhD process feels like training hard to do a million small things for the first, then last time (e.g., writing a dissertation, presenting a public defense of said dissertation). I feel like I spent the entirety of my PhD journey drowning in imposter syndrome. Now that I am closing the threads of my time, I can see how un-alone I was. Because of my time at Feminist Formations, my searching of what a feminist looks like, sounds like, or writes like has greatly declined over the last five years. Through my work as an editorial assistant and managing editor, I was witness to the work of countless authors, artists, reviewers, editorial board members, and editorial team members, all of which taught me how feminism shows up in the world in all its iterations; I no longer need to Google what a feminist looks like, because I see you, and I see myself. Feminists look like nervous scholars, [End Page 261] and confident scholars, we look like supportive editors and reviewers, rigorous and creative artists, we are mamas, friends, co-conspirators, beloveds, artists, and mentors. Thank you to the Feminist Formations multiverse for showing me the range of feminist existence and resistance, I hope your own experience with this journal has introduced you to the of beauty, happiness, rigor, success, and joy that only feminists can elicit. As I close my time with the journal, and as a student, I feel myself stepping into a world that feels like its crashing—trading one chaotic unknown life for another. While reflecting during this transition period, stepping into this future, it feels especially important to consider the context of our ","PeriodicalId":190295,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Formations","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135145255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reluctant Belonging: Tudung (Headscarf), Communalism, and Muslim Politics in Urban Malaysia","authors":"Azza Basarudin","doi":"10.1353/ff.2023.a907927","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ff.2023.a907927","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: The politics of modesty—clothing, behavior, interactions, and headscarf—remain contested within and outside Muslim communities. Headscarf practices are multivalent, with ties to national and local contexts and shaped by the transnational circulation of Islam. A nuanced approach to these variously situated practices—across narratives of choice, religiosity, nationalism, and consumerism—requires a reappraisal of patriarchal nationalism beyond the circumscribed Euro/American post-9/11 experience of Islamophobia. I analyze Malay Muslim women's tudung (headscarf) dilemmas in this article, arguing for a capacious feminist epistemology that critiques localized patriarchy within anti-imperialist and transnational perspectives. Based on intimate patchwork ethnography in urban Malaysia, I offer a feminist reading of gendered piety, communal belonging, and Islamization debates. I draw on intergenerational narrations of subjectivity to reveal how the state and community regulate tudung practices through the cultural construction of Muslim difference. I conclude by suggesting that feminist analyses attentive to the deep imbrication of patriarchal nationalism, anti-imperialist, and transnational configurations can support the reimagining of ethical possibilities in the study of gender in Muslim cultures.","PeriodicalId":190295,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Formations","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135144589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mamá Osa in the Mountains: African Ascendientes' Embodiments of Fugitivity and Freedom in the Americas","authors":"Mildred Boveda","doi":"10.1353/ff.2023.a907928","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ff.2023.a907928","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Women who are multiply marginalized find innovative ways to conjure prestige and assert their dignity within oppressive societies. In this essay, I apply a Mami-informed de/colonial approach to analyze the life of one such woman: my grandmother Rosa. In 1936, Rosa (Mamá Osa) moved to the sierras of Sánchez, Samaná, Dominican Republic to resist the anti-Black patriarchy she experienced. By sharing my grandmother's story, I underscore the value of multiply marginalized women being in community with one another as a counterpoint to the liberal goal of integration. I draw parallels between the oral history of her decision to start a new life in the mountains and the written accounts of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century maroon communities of the Americas. I also examine Dominican feminist writings during my grandmother's era to contextualize her life narrative. In making explicit how past Dominican feminist and pedagogical discourse were inaccessible and marginalizing to freedom-seeking women like my grandmother, I urge scholars who trace knowledge systems around the world to continue to examine the sources of feminist thought.","PeriodicalId":190295,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Formations","volume":"214 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135144586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"When Modesty Meets Aesthetic Labor: Islamic Modesty as Antithetical to Muslimah Social Media Influencers' Aesthetic Labor","authors":"Inaash Islam","doi":"10.1353/ff.2023.a907926","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ff.2023.a907926","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: What is the relationship between Islamic principles of modesty and practices of aesthetic labor in the industries of influencer marketing and fashion? I respond to this question by examining the aesthetic labor of self-proclaimed modest Muslim female social media influencers to show how Islamic modesty—as it is understood via patriarchal interpretations of Islamic texts, and by cultural authorities in secular circles of fashion, is deemed inherently antithetical to Muslim female aesthetic labor in the fashion and influencer marketing industries. My findings show that Muslimah influencers face a doubly burdened challenge: on the one hand, Muslim women are expected to modify their performances of modesty to align with the secular expectations of aesthetic labor in these industries, but on the other, they are expected to observe modesty according to patriarchal interpretations of Islamic texts. In either case, failure to abide by racialized and gendered expectations renders Muslim women vulnerable to critique from Muslim and non-Muslim communities. I argue that this conflict illustrates that Islamic modesty is deemed fundamental to contemporary conceptions and embodied performances of Muslim womanhood online and plays a key role in shaping racialized and gendered expectations of Muslim women held by Muslim and non-Muslim communities in the west.","PeriodicalId":190295,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Formations","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135143156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Forms of Solidarity and the Self: A Postcolonial Reading of Yuli Riswati's Hong Kong Writing","authors":"Kai Hang Cheang","doi":"10.1353/ff.2023.a907920","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ff.2023.a907920","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: This article puts together the seemingly disparate topics of transnational domestic labor and the Hong Kong protests to discuss inter-ethnic and cross-class solidarity. It does so by examining the writing of Yuli Riswati, an Indonesian migrant worker and civic journalist who was deported from Hong Kong in 2019. City-wide civil disobedience in Hong Kong has historically been predicated upon the liberal ideal of suffrage (as in 2014) and an essentialized and Han-centric identity of Hongkonger (as in 2019), both of which have overlooked the needs of ethnic minorities, especially those who are ineligible for citizenship. Building on scholarship in decolonial and intersectional feminism, this essay focuses on Riswati's two short stories, namely \"Violet Testimony\" (2016) and \" 那個傷口依然在我體內 \" (\"The Wound Is Still Inside Me\" 2019) as well as her personal essay, \"Some Notes about Hong Kong as My Second Home\" (2020), which was featured by the exhibition afterbefore at the Chinatown Soup gallery in New York. This essay argues that Riswati's writing embodies what Gayatri Spivak would call an oppositional transformative: Riswati's stories about political involvement and gender-based domestic violence challenge the traditional history of the international labor movement that has a distinctive masculinist ethos and the typical narrative of Hong Kong protests focused exclusively on the citizenry, a rhetorical move underpinned by the homogenizing assumption that all Hongkongers are Han Chinese. As a former Hong Kong domestic worker, Riswati's textual performatives throw into relief the shared precarity which makes herself and her community relatable to a global audience; thereby, her writing brokers a type of intersubjectivity of the human or a postcolonial humanism that does not rely on a preconceived notion of humanity which shows up in the definition of a nation or a region's citizenry but rather on audience engagement that speaks to her publications' distinctive context and culture.","PeriodicalId":190295,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Formations","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135145246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Inherited Silence: Listening to the Land, Healing the Colonizer Mind by Louise Dunlap (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/ff.2023.a907930","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ff.2023.a907930","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: Inherited Silence: Listening to the Land, Healing the Colonizer Mind by Louise Dunlap Gwyn Kirk (bio) Inherited Silence: Listening to the Land, Healing the Colonizer Mind by Louise Dunlap, New York: New Village Press, 2022. 277 pp., $89.00 hardcover, $22.95 paper. E-book available from digital partners. Congratulations to Louise Dunlap for this unflinching account of how her family's land, in what is now known as Northern California, came to be in their hands, and their silence about the Indigenous people who had cared for this place. Dunlap describes the 80-acre ranch in Napa Valley: the massive live oaks, [End Page 253] wildflower meadows, creeks, birds, and the many plants she knows by name—California natives as well as invasive species brought from Europe. She writes: I'd felt deep intimacy and love for this piece of earth since childhood, long before I understood that my great-great-grandfather had bought it in a time of what's now acknowledged as genocide … I wanted to unearth the land's history and the roles my relatives had played in its colonization … to understand the wounding that must have taken place and how all of us—and the land—could heal. (1–2) In 1843, Nathan Coombs, Dunlap's great-great-grandfather, arrived in California from Massachusetts. He founded the town of Napa in 1847; and an outlying area, Coombsville, is named after him. In 1857, Coombs bought more than 2,000 acres of rolling hills, part of a land grant the Mexican government had conferred on ranchero and military man Cayetano Juárez for his services in protecting Franciscan missions and \"subduing\" Indigenous people. Earlier, Wappo and Patwin people had used this land for hunting and gathering and cared for it year-round. Dunlap's California ancestors were businessmen, lawyers, elected officials—people who showed up in archives. She traced them through newspaper reports, old maps, the County Historical Society, and faded letters written in copperplate script. Also, scholars were publishing new histories that documented \"a California genocide during the Anglo wave of conquest from 1846 to 1873,\" just as Nathan Coombs was establishing himself (47). What Dunlap learned about her family did not fully answer her questions, however. She realized that their \"silences didn't start in Napa; their mind-set had come west with them\" (200). Working back in time, she discovered relatives who'd arrived on the Mayflower and were \"part of settler-colonialism from the very beginning\" (201). She read critical accounts of the first European settlements described by literary scholar Kathleen Donegan (2014) as \"brutal places characterized by disease, death, factions, violence, starvation, ignorance …\" (203). This was not what Dunlap had learned as a child. Abenaki scholar Lisa Brooks (2018) calls the settler narrative of triumph and resilience a \"replacement narrative\" that erased both psychological trauma and the appalling brutality against those already living on this contin","PeriodicalId":190295,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Formations","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135145250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"\"It Came, Over and Over, Down to This: What Made Someone a Mother?\": A Reproductive Justice Analysis of Little Fires Everywhere","authors":"Kimberly D. McKee, Shannon Gibney","doi":"10.1353/ff.2023.a907924","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ff.2023.a907924","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Ideologies of motherhood reflect the complexities and contradictions of what it means to be seen as a worthy parent—someone who deserves to care for children—in contrast to those deemed unworthy or undesirable. The family is a site of contestation when accounting for the ways maternalism and white supremacy affect racialized family systems in the lives of people of color in white American suburbia. In a critical engagement with the 2017 novel Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng and the 2020 Hulu -released series by the same name, this essay reveals the contours of non-normative kinship formations, including surrogacy and adoption. These kinship ties demonstrate the tensions of motherhood as a gendered, raced, and classed phenomena. A reproductive justice framework reveals the way Little Fires Everywhere —the novel and the series—demonstrate the legibility and legitimacy of some families over others in exploring the contingencies of kinship.","PeriodicalId":190295,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Formations","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135144587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Organic Transitioning and Queer Topophilia in Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl","authors":"Cynthia Belmont","doi":"10.1353/ff.2023.a907925","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ff.2023.a907925","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Andrea Lawlor's (2017) historical picaresque novel Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl tracks the ephemeral embodiments and identifications of Paul Polydoris, a gender-fluid, shape-shifting anti-hero who adapts to queer environments across the United States during 1993–1995, a time when gay hedonism, lesbian feminism, punk anti-homonormativity, and LGBTQ responses to AIDS combined to make a complex heyday of queer culture. Paul exemplifies \"organic\" transitioning in that his gender processes complicate the culture/nature binary, resist anthropocentrism, emphasize empathetic interrelation with other organisms, and privilege understanding of the complex involvement of biology, culture, and individual will in transition. Paul's body is an enchanted site of meaning that is created in situ and in which he is then positioned to participate in local culture, moving the concept \"sense of place\" from green trope to queer fantasy of limitless engendering. Approaching the novel from a queer ecological/ecofeminist perspective, this paper argues that as a magical, marginal bricoleur who assembles performative selves from biological forms and cultural references via passionate liminal engagement with queer spaces, Paul inhabits a self-directed transness that challenges conventional understandings of the \"natural\" and the \"human,\" modeling a dynamic, queer topophilia.","PeriodicalId":190295,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Formations","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135145253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}