Fishy fragments: trans women's worlds in Ktaqamkuk/Newfoundland
This portfolio-style thesis and work of autoethnographic research-creation explores the historical lives of trans women in Ktaqamkuk/Newfoundland, Canada. Working with an assemblage of archival remains, felt knowledges, and poetic imaginations – what I call fishy fragments – of trans women’s worlds...
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Memorial University of Newfoundland
2020
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| Online Access: | https://research.library.mun.ca/14677/ https://research.library.mun.ca/14677/1/thesis.pdf |
| Summary: | This portfolio-style thesis and work of autoethnographic research-creation explores the historical lives of trans women in Ktaqamkuk/Newfoundland, Canada. Working with an assemblage of archival remains, felt knowledges, and poetic imaginations – what I call fishy fragments – of trans women’s worlds in Newfoundland, I reveal how the past five decades of our lives have been shaped by loss, sex work, and oceanleaving. Loving and honouring fishy fragments as a way to seek more heartful modes of inquiry in trans historical studies, this thesis offers a creative counterarchive of Newfoundland trans women’s worlds by thinking with trans+oceanic emotional geographies. |
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