... Chapter 7 analyzes the nude blogging and street protest of the Egyptian Aliaa Elmahdy. It argues that this activism may be read as a performance of rage against the status quo. Elmahdy brought sex to Tahrir Square on her own terms, injecting herself onto the geopolitical scene as a gendered...

... that of the novel's monster). In its theorization of transgender rage, the essay demonstrates how trans politics, like queer politics, entails the recognition that certain emotions are not private, isolated experiences—that shame, fear, despair, and rage are social and political. the piece works through aesthetic...