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Femme disorder/disordered femme: Situation knowledges or geysers: An extremophilic method for what's on the inside

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: 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.

Source: Environment and Planning D Society and Space

DOI: 10.1177/02637758251408322

Author: TL Cowan

Institution: University of Toronto

Language: English

Topic: Posthumanist Ethics and Activism

Subfield: Cultural Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,900

Funder: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada