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Toxic Animacies, Inanimate Affections
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Mel Y. Chen considers "toxicity" and "animacy" in the racializing and queering of bodies and sociality. Through a look at national panic in the US surrounding lead in Chinese-manufactured toys, an auto-ethnographic exploration of body, sociality and immunity, and other varied discussions, Chen probes social and object relationships amid material and bodily assemblages. 

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Monstrous Relationalities: The Horrors of Queer Eroticism and 'Thingness' in Alan Moore and Stephen Bissette's Swamp Thing
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Robin A. McDonald
Dan Vena
In this essay, we suggest that this new conceptualization of Swamp Thing re-positions the creature as a thing; an obdurate entity that does not easily adhere to rigid classifications of ‘human’ or ‘plant,’ of ‘animate’ or ‘inanimate,’ of ‘original’ or ‘copy’ (even if characters within the comic text may argue otherwise).
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I'm Just Normal
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Jean-Thomas Tremblay

In Noah Baumbach’s 2015 national-millennial fable, Mistress America, “I’m just normal” bespeaks dissatisfaction. It’s an identity that Tracy claims in an effort to project her way out of it.

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