The Still Unfathomed Trans+Oceanic

For centuries, violence against mermaids has coexisted alongside slippery sexualizations in much of Newfoundland’s folk and popular cultures. This is demonstrated most grievously in colonist Richard Whitbourne’s 1620 text, A Discourse and Discovery of Newfoundland. The fishy reality of simultaneous...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jefferies, Daze
Format: Text
Language:unknown
Published: Scholars Commons @ Laurier 2022
Subjects:
trans
sex work
fishy
history
ecology
Newfoundland
Fine Arts
History of Gender
Lesbian
Gay
Bisexual
and Transgender Studies
North Atlantic
Online Access:https://scholars.wlu.ca/thegoose/vol19/iss2/3
https://scholars.wlu.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1642&context=thegoose
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Summary:For centuries, violence against mermaids has coexisted alongside slippery sexualizations in much of Newfoundland’s folk and popular cultures. This is demonstrated most grievously in colonist Richard Whitbourne’s 1620 text, A Discourse and Discovery of Newfoundland. The fishy reality of simultaneous disposability and desirability also mirrors the life histories of trans women and sex workers in the capital port city of St. John’s. Imagining mermaids as trans and sex-working ancestors in a province that has been structured by ecologies of fish trade, this work of research-creation drifts through precarious survival in the North Atlantic.

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