Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-31-2022
Abstract
For centuries, violence against mermaids has coexisted alongside slippery sexualizations in much of Newfoundland’s folk and popular cultures. This is demonstrated most grievously in colonist Richard Whitbourne’s 1620 text, A Discourse and Discovery of Newfoundland. The fishy reality of simultaneous disposability and desirability also mirrors the life histories of trans women and sex workers in the capital port city of St. John’s. Imagining mermaids as trans and sex-working ancestors in a province that has been structured by ecologies of fish trade, this work of research-creation drifts through precarious survival in the North Atlantic.
Recommended Citation / Citation recommandée
Jefferies, Daze.
"The Still Unfathomed Trans+Oceanic."
The Goose, vol. 19
,
no.
2
, article 3,
2022,
https://scholars.wlu.ca/thegoose/vol19/iss2/3.
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