Kay Harrison
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贰尘补颈濒:听kay.harrison@unsw.edu.au
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Kay Harrison is a writer who works across features, branding and digital. Her work has been published in ACP magazines, Overland, Brittle Star, Star Observer, Seizure, and other publications. Her work has been selected for the QWC/Hachette Australia Manuscript Development Program, a Varuna Fellowship, and shortlisted for the Richell Prize, and other awards.
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The creative practice 鈥 a novel about queer thirty-somethings in the turbulent Rudd/Gillard years 鈥 challenges heteronormative success narratives and queers the 鈥榝emale鈥 body through disease and m/otherhood. The dissertation, following queer feminist studies scholar Gayatri Gopinath, stages 鈥渃ollisions and encounters鈥 between four critically under-read novels to 鈥減erform new histories鈥 of the body in space (Australian suburbia) and time.
The project draws on contemporary queer and feminist theories to trace the 鈥榝emale鈥 body through Australia鈥檚 literary suburbs: notably Gopinath鈥檚 analysis of aesthetic practices as a means to 鈥榗are for鈥 the past; Sam McBean鈥檚 location of queer (anti-teleological and anti-generational) temporalities in feminism; and Jack Halberstam鈥檚 鈥渟hadow feminisms鈥 that engage failure to de/camp the 鈥減unishing norms that discipline behaviour and manage human development鈥.
Both dissertation and creative practice operate as speech acts in the face of entrenched systemic sequestration, promoting the continued uncloseting of the 鈥榝emale鈥 and 鈥榦ther鈥. An act of queer curation, with caretaking at its core, they prioritise 鈥渢he regional, the personal, the affective, the everyday鈥.