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Cat Dawson

PhD is a scholar and tech entrepreneur. They live in Brooklyn with their dog Agnes.

Sutured Futures: Composite Bodies and Queer Futurity

By Cat Dawson

It is hard enough to envisage the future when everything seems possible; harder still in conditions that threaten to foreclose on bodily integrity, or one’s very survival. Such is the history of queer representation which, in deference to juridical realities, long relied on coded representations for self-representation.

Felipe Baeza, <em>Tu, que brotas en la noche,</em> 2018. Ink, watercolor, cut paper, egg tempera, and embroidery on panel. 12 x 9 in© Felipe Baeza, courtesy Maureen Paley, London / Hove.
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