Abstract
Abstract: This paper centers on reading the trans author Rivers Solomon’s 2021 novel Sorrowland through the lens of postnaturalism—particularly as it is figured in the monstrous—and thereby helping readers understand the crux of transphobia specifically and conservative politics more generally. In this two-part goal, the term transphobia illuminates both how conservative revanchism involves a static social order governed by an orthodoxy that trans people can never affirm even while trans identities threaten the legitimacy of this orthodoxy in revealing the ability of individuals to exceed social categories in a praxis of being.
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