Communizing Care in The Left Hand Of Darkness

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2017-11

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Aizura, Aren Z.

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Fembot Collective

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In this essay I combine a reading of The Left Hand of Darkness with autobiographical accounts of queer/trans reproduction and childrearing. Contrasting my own experiments in “50/50” parenting with the vision of care elaborated in the novel, I draw attention to the importance of caring labor to radical queer and trans politics more generally.

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15 pages

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Smillie, T. (2017): Radical Imagination And The Left Hand of Darkness. Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, No. 12. doi:10.13016/M2RB6W385

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https://hdl.handle.net/1794/26775

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Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology; Issue no. 12: Radical Speculation and Ursula K. Le Guin (November 2017)