BRICK

<p><em>Brick </em>is a collection of lineated and prose poetry that explores the role of transfemininity in Western imperial history and imagination. The text engages with themes of sisterhood, trauma, and ideology through the lens of transfeminism as they relate to history, family, and the state. <em>Brick </em>is the search for chosen family and a place of belonging as it narrates the life of and creates dialogue between its principal subject, Dora Richter, the first documented trans woman to receive a vaginoplasty. <em>Brick</em> celebrates trans life and embodiment in all of its delicate precarity under capitalist patriarchy, serving as warning of how easily progress can be lost while proclaiming the joy of rebellion from the cruel, effemimanic imagination it documents.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Fine Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Year dc:date.available

2023

Author dc:creator

• Geiger, Sally

Contributors dc:contributor

• Matthew Gavin Frank

• transexuality
• fascism
• transgender
• feminism
• trauma
• sisterhood
• poetry
• hybrid
• sexology
• history
• Cultural History
• European History
• History of Gender
• Holocaust and Genocide Studies
• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies
• Literature in English, North America
• Nonfiction
• Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
• Women's Studies

Repository record dc:identifier

https://commons.nmu.edu/theses/747

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:commons.nmu.edu:theses-1792