Femme disorder/disordered femme
Situation knowledges or geysers: An extremophilic method for what's on the inside
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7472690 |
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| Authors | T L Cowan (0000-0003-0713-491X, University of Toronto), Tl Cowan (University of Toronto, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 121-131 |
| Publication date | 2026-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/02637758251408322 |
| PMID | 41743861 |
| OpenAlex | W7124451615 |
| Language | EN |
In this performance-essay, T.L. Cowan introduces a geyser method for ‘situation knowledges’: text-based drawings for the description and study of explosive, complex, and traumatic expression. Rejecting linearity and mono-genricity, Cowan writes tangentially and propulsively on grief, necro-political white exceptionalism and grievability, shock, shame, rage, and extreme emotional un- and re-shaping. Embracing the stigma of cognitive disorderliness/being disordered, this essay experiments with crip-femme autopoetics for immoderate ways of being out-of-order as a technique-tactic both for automatic writing and self/life-writing, which pushes past feminist mess and claims the chaotic as an aesthetic and political superpower
Chaotic · Exceptionalism · Nexus (standard · Politics · Stigma (botany · White (mutation · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing · Mental Health via Writing · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
| Highly cited | No |
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