Skowyt przyjaciółek. Transfeministyczne i queerowe narracje w kolektywnych praktykach wydawniczych
My Besties’ Howl. Transfeminist and Queer Narratives in Collective Publishing Practices

Summary/Abstract: The article examines transfeminist narratives in two poetry zines: Broken Cindy by Eileen Myles and Silesian Gothic by Anouk Herman, published by a small press Girls and Queers to the Front. The essay analyzes how poetry books and the associated grassroots publishing practices in Poland are creating a new, transfeminist, and queer space of protest, emerging in response to both material and symbolic violence. Focusing, on the one hand, on the collective dimension of activist literary practices, and, on the other, on specific publications by Herman and Myles, the article looks at how the Gothic, humor, and questioning the role of institutions allow for resistance to patriarchal and transphobic systems: both on a small scale within selected institutions and more broadly against social and gender norms.

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