Date of Award
5-2023
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts
Department
English
Program
Creative Writing (MFA)
First Advisor/Chairperson
Matthew Gavin Frank
Abstract
Brick 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. Brick 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. Brick 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.
Recommended Citation
Geiger, Sally, "BRICK" (2023). All NMU Master's Theses. 747.
https://commons.nmu.edu/theses/747
Access Type
Open Access
Justification for Restricting Access
Sensitive information. I do not want people to read it.
Included in
Cultural History Commons, European History Commons, History of Gender Commons, Holocaust and Genocide Studies Commons, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Commons, Literature in English, North America Commons, Nonfiction Commons, Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, Poetry Commons, Women's Studies Commons