...Karen Barad Drawing on a disparate set of naturalcultural phenomena from regenerative biology, quantum field theory, and queer and trans theories that include lightning, primordial ooze, frogs, bioelectricity, monstrosity, trans rage, virtual particles, and errant pathways, this article is about...

... the frog. You know how it goes: a scorpion begs a frog for a ride across a body of water. Though at first reluctant, the frog eventually agrees. At some point during the trip, the scorpion stings the frog. That is its nature. We know the conversation the frog and scorpion have before they...

... shyness and intimidation, took years after kissing enough femme frogs and butch toads we were not perfect but at least in the church of la joteria y mariconada I could pull my date close, that tenderest of queers, she would giggle that she’s too soft to be called butch...

... not occupy. And though they were only sporadically visible, I could be certain a toad was somewhere nearby. (vii) A story that begins in gratitude and admiration turns toward elegy as Chen observes that frogs and toads are vanishing from the world...

.... See also Robin Ruth Linden, Against Sadomasochism (East Palo Alto, CA: Frog in the Well, 1982); and ed. Lisa Duggan and Nan D. Hunter, Sex Wars: Sexual Dissent and Political Culture (New York: Rout- ledge, 1995). I use the term trauma here not...

... Ellis “owned a real giraffe, that he turned a child into a frog or a cat, that he swung a child around a prickle bush by his penis, and that he put children in cages with lions and buried them in graveyards” (435). Given the fanciful nature of such testimony, it is impossible to...

... childhood relayed earlier in the chapter. Describing the inci- dent that “would change my life forever,” Treadwell remembers a group of older boys killing a bucketful of frogs beside a pond, and the boys tossing him “into the reeds like a rag doll” after he attempted to rescue the...

... alliances spanning distant and disparate communities” (Waddell and Louder 350). Not only is our French North American geography tortured, but so are the names that we have called ourselves or were hurled at us: Frenchy, Frog, Creole, Acadien, Mhtis, Franco, Coonass, Lard-Eater, Dumb Frenchman...

... of any country where we might cou- ple with anybody even a shade darker than us: We had to get to the United States, which was close by and chock full of frog-eyed white people such as Joe Namath and President Ford” (35). The mother’s scripting of the family...

... the first gathering that the epithet “sissy” recognized a truth in gay subjectivity, which he asked gay men to reclaim by shedding “the ugly green frog skin of Hetero-male imitation . . . to reveal the beautiful Fairy Prince hidden beneath.”23 Gatherings promote drag as a way to practice an anti...

... Iron Council’s Bas-Lag — an uncanny world of unionized frogs, shape-shifters, golems, and heroic, animate plant life — the collective V-effekt of these impossible bodies restages aspects of history that have been secluded from view. Against fantasy’s most insipid reading as developmentally...

... Iron Council’s Bas-Lag — an uncanny world of unionized frogs, shape-shifters, golems, and heroic, animate plant life — the collective V-effekt of these impossible bodies restages aspects of history that have been secluded from view. Against fantasy’s most insipid reading as developmentally...

... Iron Council’s Bas-Lag — an uncanny world of unionized frogs, shape-shifters, golems, and heroic, animate plant life — the collective V-effekt of these impossible bodies restages aspects of history that have been secluded from view. Against fantasy’s most insipid reading as developmentally...

... allegory of the past and a hazy utopian portent. In Iron Council’s Bas-Lag — an uncanny world of unionized frogs, shape-shifters, golems, and heroic, animate plant life — the collective V-effekt of these impossible bodies restages aspects of history that have been secluded from view. Against...

... allegory of the past and a hazy utopian portent. In Iron Council’s Bas-Lag — an uncanny world of unionized frogs, shape-shifters, golems, and heroic, animate plant life — the collective V-effekt of these impossible bodies restages aspects of history that have been secluded from view. Against...

... allegory of the past and a hazy utopian portent. In Iron Council’s Bas-Lag — an uncanny world of unionized frogs, shape-shifters, golems, and heroic, animate plant life — the collective V-effekt of these impossible bodies restages aspects of history that have been secluded from view. Against...

... perspective.”2 In fantasy’s hypersaturated future histories, the more alienating the world, the more the reader recognizes it as simultaneously an allegory of the past and a hazy utopian portent. In Iron Council’s Bas-Lag — an uncanny world of unionized frogs, shape-shifters, golems, and heroic, animate...

... allegory of the past and a hazy utopian portent. In Iron Council’s Bas-Lag — an uncanny world of unionized frogs, shape-shifters, golems, and heroic, animate plant life — the collective V-effekt of these impossible bodies restages aspects of history that have been secluded from view. Against...

... Iron Council’s Bas-Lag — an uncanny world of unionized frogs, shape-shifters, golems, and heroic, animate plant life — the collective V-effekt of these impossible bodies restages aspects of history that have been secluded from view. Against fantasy’s most insipid reading as developmentally...