Femme disorder/disordered femme: Situation knowledges or geysers: An extremophilic method for what's on the inside
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.
Authors
- TL Cowan
Institutions
- University of Toronto (CA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Environment and Planning D Society and Space
- Published
- 2026-01-16
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758251408322
- Primary Topic
- Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00