speculative feminisms | #4 Writing (the Weird), Performing (Transgression), Resisting (Identity)

In this conversation, writer and journalist Yasmin Zaher, artist Melanie Jamie Wolf, and writer Maxi Wallenhorst will engage the representational, narrative, and strategic challenges inherent in telling stories about oppression and resistance, bodies and affect, and identities and politics.  Yasmin Zaher’s debut novel The Coin challenges not only bodily and social boundaries but also the strictures of “diasporic literature”. Melanie Jamie Wolf‘s work uses the allegorical, the liminal, the deceptive, and the staged as sensual conditions to explore capital, power, and gender. Maxi Wallenhorst writes on queer materialism, “dissociative style”, and German fascism on TikTok, and is currently working on a dissertation on the poetics of metabolic disruption. How do notions, affective states, and theoretical approaches of transgression, slipperiness, weirdness, or the liminal allow us to address the material conditions of the world we inhabit?