Monster (Girl) Theory

by Kanika Lawton

Est. 9h 25m 6 Pages 304 reading now

Prologue

"I rot at the touch and still, I throw myselfat anyone willing to look. Men grab at the softfruit of my body. I unskin myself into somethingreal. The only teeth left baring are my own."---Kanika Lawton's Monster (Girl) Theory is an ode to film theorist Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, monster movies, and monstrous women. It is a uncanny howl in the night; it is the unsettling gaze of a woman raised back to life. How do femininity and monstrosity interact and bleed into one another? How are racialized bodies and feminine bodies drawn as terrible, terrifying, troubling? The theses of this small book are unsettling and transformative, aching and vicious; Lawton binds together film theory and lived experience into something wholly new and wholly fierce.This tiny book measures approximately 3" tall and 2.5" wide. It has six pages. Words by Kanika Lawton; layout and design by Dessa Bayrock. Handmade with love in Ottawa, Ontario. Limited editions hand-numbered out of 75.

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