Assigned Disaster at Birth

Assigned Disaster at Birth is the scifi surrealist autofictitious diary and scrapbook of a queer space alien stuck in a humanoid body, a trans transhuman, written mostly in verse. The space alien speaker of these poems moves through multiple marginalized human identities ultimately remembering it isn't human at all. Through these poems, the speaker forms solidarities with nonhuman kin, reclaiming the memory lost to colonialism and civilization of what it means to be nonhuman and more-than-human.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Fine Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Creative Writing

Department dc:contributor.department

English

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

2022

Author dc:creator

• Marhoefer, Katherinna

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Smith, Carmen Gimenez

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Queen, Khadijah
• Cassinelli, Silas M.

• queer studies
• ecology
• colonialism
• imperialism
• pilipinx literature
• transmasculinity
• transhumanity

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en

Dc Identifier Other

vt_gsexam:34700

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/110970